Quotes About Dedication

I wanted to be an actor since I was three years old; I would dance to Madhuri Dixit's 'Ek do teen' in front of the mirror and recite dialogues from 'Kal Ho Naa Ho,' 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... ,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai...'

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

The guitar saved me from a life of crime as a teenager.

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made any kind of commitment.

My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.

Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.

I've been playing since I was a teenager, and I put out a few albums when I was younger. When 'Crazy Heart' took off, it gave me another reason to get into music in a more serious fashion.

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

When the time is right I have a laugh and a joke with my friends on a day off, but I have had to make sacrifices, and in that sense it's been a huge step forward, completely different to how it was before. I was 18 when the manager spoke to me. I realised I'm not like any other teenager. I can't be doing stuff any other 18 or 19-year-old was doing.

You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don't experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can't live the uni lifestyle. But I've never, ever thought about quitting football.

My best man was my best friend of almost 20 years, Matt Ryan. He actually plays John Constantine on the new NBC show 'Constantine,' but we've been friends since we were teenagers.

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.