Quotes About Dedication

By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.

I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.

I just focus on trying to please and entertain those who have faith in my talent.

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

Hulk fans are impossible to please.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

I'm in this to be the best fighter in the world, to put on entertaining shows, and to please the fans.

I'm not trying to please everybody. I'm just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

We don't try to please everyone. Those older fans who expect something from The Roots are a tad more important to me than getting new fans.

Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.

I'm real pleased and humbled by the support that the fans show.

I am always pleased to talk about Buffon. He is an extraordinary player, a professional with values.

If players are pleased to come off the pitch, that says they are not interested and don't want to be on there.

Wouldn't it be funny if I were a total nightmare? If I just shot 21-hour days and went over budget? But, you know, it's something I'm really careful about, because I am a mom, and also, I'm an actor. I'm a pleaser: I don't want to take up too much of people's time.

Rahman is very very director friendly. He is ever ready to go whichever the director wants, the story wants, depending on the kind of movie or the music you want, and within that he finds his niche. It is a constantly complementary process. At the end of the day he is not pleasing you, he has to please himself.

I'm always looking to improve as a player and it's very pleasing when you see those improvements.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn't because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure. That's been my credo.

I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.