Quotes About Commitment

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

My feelings in regards to the national team are simple: If the manager thinks I can be of use, I will be ready for the call.

I don't know who Rick Barnes thinks I am, but I'm not a dude that likes to just mess around about anything.

Learning how to play on a team full of future pros, it's not as easy as everyone thinks.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

First, love to the family. Second, love to career. Third, love to the audience.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

I love my country. I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

If I'm going to get up on stage to eat hot dogs, I'm not going to do it to get third or fourth.

Third Irishman to wear the green jersey, after 31 years, that's very special for me, and I'm focused on keeping it.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.

When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.

I am so thirsty to do my projects whenever I have a spare moment.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.