Quotes About Dedication

I really do try and play as many festivals as possible.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

Very few people get into that category of being a good grafter.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.

If you decide to move to L.A. like, 'I'm just gonna see if it works, and if nothing works I'm gonna go back in a year, two years' - very, very few people with that attitude are successful. You need to make a commitment to this and say, 'This is who I am, and this is what I do.'

I've worked really hard in this industry and feel I've learnt a few things along the way.

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

Most people I know that are successful have a few things in common that are undeniable: driving ambition, and they have applied that to something they're good at, that they love doing... and they are fun to be around, especially when they're talking about their passion.

Sports is one of those few things left in our society where, as soon as you step on the court, or get in the ring, you are who you are.

There are few things that define us as a country more distinctly than the idea of the American Dream. The idea that anyone can make it here through hard work and dedication. And that dream rests on giving people here a fair shot.

You need to cut a few things out if you want to be the best you can be.

You see fewer and fewer chefs who are really big - most stay in shape.

When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

In devoting more time and attention to fewer commitments, we can have a bigger impact on the things that matter most.

When you get to do things you love with every fiber of your being, it's a different experience.

It's so important that we take auditions less seriously, take your work seriously, but take the industry a whole lot less seriously because it is so fickle.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.'

I can't remember who said, 'No film is completed, just abandoned,' but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

Football is not just what you do on the field.