Quotes About Dedication

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

People can't believe how hard I work.... I love it. I think it just runs through my veins. My great-grandfather was a bellboy and had a dream to do a hotel chain, so I think I get it from him.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

Fortunately work begets work.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

I want to continue to expand my game a little more, build my body and work on staying strong so I can play the way I've been playing, and holding my ground the way I've been holding my ground.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.