Quotes About Dedication

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

Gravity Falls' was a labor of love, but like all labor it could be painful at times.

I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

It wasn't easy to shoot for 'Baahubali.' It was very painful and annoying.

No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.

If you want to achieve a real labour of love, it can be painful, too.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.