Quotes About Dedication

The first time I joined the gym was during the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 2006. Then, I went for the Miss Universe contest where I was exposed to girls who were very fit for their age. They could have joined the Olympics. They were doing crazy exercises.

I am really happy that Miss World pageant takes keen interest in my projects.

Because I knew we were going to wear five inches during the pageant, I would train with six inches. So, when it was time to wear the five-inch heels, they felt like nothing to me.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.

In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.

Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.