Quotes About Dedication

Usually when I work, I'm totally dedicated to the role, and when I leave the set, I bring some of my character home with me, but I can't bring anyone home with me now because my son would freak out.

I'm a basketball freak.

The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.

'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.

She was just the most wonderful mother. She loved working with Fred Astaire - she would talk about working with him.

When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.

The reason why I'm playing good is because I don't think one second about my free agency.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

When I started I only swam freestyle, and did just freestyle in my first Paralympics.

It's important that I'm always playing fresh and that I'm ready to go rather than just playing because I feel like I have to.

Dance means everything to me; it is like fresh air that rejuvenates my life.

When I was younger, trying to make the freshman and JV team, my dream was always to make it to the NBA.

In high school, I tried out for every sport there was. But none of them would have me. When I was a freshman, someone asked me to go audition for a play with them. I got in and didn't want to do anything else for the next four years.

Being an XXL Freshman means that I actually grinded a lot to get here.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

I'm not a person who would get up at 5 A.M. to write, but I could sacrifice my Friday night and just order in dinner, sit at home and get into it.

I want to give 100 per cent every day whether it's training, a cup final or a friendly.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

No one works with an actor or a director for friendship.