Quotes About Dedication

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

When I think back on the work that I've been able to do and the work in my career of the highest quality, a huge portion of that has been on HBO. That didn't happen by accident.

Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing.

You have to give every portion of yourself to it. As an artist, that is just what you do - because we love it - we were born to do it.

I went to a 'Divas' search because I live in L.A. It continued from there. The final portion was in-ring training. I fell in love with it the first day.

Shift4 has always been the greater portion of my time commitment.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Portland basketball fans are the best basketball fans in the world.

We don't have those bougie, not-into-it, wouldn't-be-caught-dead-in-the-free-t-shirt hoops fans in Portland. We've got those pinwheel-tattooed, bleeding-red-and-black, still-rocking-that-Walton-jersey, ride-or-die, realer-than-real hoops fans in Portland. The love is real. The support is real.

I'd love to bring a championship here to Portland.

I think working so hard in Portland to earn the right to have it be my team and to have my own team over the years and try to play at a high level, that was hard-earned.

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.

There is no particular character that I wish to portray. I just want to push myself to do justice to whichever role I am offered.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story.

Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.

For 'Astitva,' I needed actors who were good and committed and could portray the character's growth over a period of time - from 21 to 47 years.

As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn't make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

From the things I've read, I think I've been portrayed in kind of a way that makes me look like I don't put an effort into winning. I think that's completely the wrong portrayal of the person I am.

I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.

I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.