Quotes About Dedication

Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

Passion: It's what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.

We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.

I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

I'm not a dirty player. I love this game, and I'm playing hard.

My team-mates appreciate that I do the dirty work and I know it is necessary.

Some people might think that what I've done before made it easier for me to get jobs, but it was actually a disadvantage. I had to work even harder.

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

I want to disappear in a role.

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.

I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.