Quotes About Dedication

Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours - sometimes 18 hours if you're doing 'Orphan Black.'

I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black,' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me.

Before I pass, I want to start an orphanage and name it after my mother. She worked with kids all her life.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.

Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.

You never make movies for Oscars.

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

We are training as hard as all athletes in other countries.

You see a lot of managers who are working and yet are already talking about other countries and other teams. But that's not for me.

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Being an actor is lot like being a dancer: you always have to go back to the bar and either work or take classes. Otherwise, you'll get rusty.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

When I arrive at a club, I always look at it like I'm going to stay all my life. I couldn't work like I do otherwise.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.