Quotes About Dedication

I have my method when it comes to my work. I don't think about who has done what, rather what I am doing is of utmost importance to me.

I believe that the performance of my actors is of utmost importance to make a good film.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

I was an expert skier who set his sights on going to the 1988 Olympics in Canada to represent Britain, and went from novice ramps to the 120-metre jump in five months. That's possible only with utter focus.

I don't think I've ever had a minute off in Israel. I've been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I'm not saying I'm a good guy for that. It's just the way the dice have fallen.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.

From the age of 6 to 33, I was utterly driven and single-minded.

As long as I am capable of working, and can learn lines and move around, I will carry on. I'd be utterly bored if I stopped.

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

My mom worked at the VA for years, so any time I can do anything to help, it's a must.

My stepdaughter, who is based in Alaska right now, is a brand-new lieutenant in the Army. She could be deployed in 18 months. And another stepdaughter is a physician for the VA.

I would rather be working than be on vacation. Always.

There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

The average person - if you had a situation that hit your family and you needed to do something, you would not just go and take a vacation, or you would not do something that's not related to the task at hand. But in Washington, that just seems to be par for the course.

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.

Every vacation was taking my brother and I to camp, whether it was football camp, wrestling camp, or whatever it was.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.