Quotes About Commitment

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.

It all goes back to the players putting everything out on the pitch. They commit to the game, so the support gets behind them straight away. They don't see half-hearted performances, they don't see people that are not running around. They see players competing, putting in the effort and enthusiasm.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I've dedicated my life to competitive dancing, so I'd like to pass that on to others. You can't be half-hearted about competitive dancing, you have to be prepared to give your whole life over to it.

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.

I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn't conform to the idea of 'halfway.'

I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.

I hate to do anything halfway so I leave the guitar alone.

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.

I want to be in the Hall of Fame.

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

I make it to the hall of fame. I pay for my due.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

I've seen 'The Godfather Part II,' 'Broadcast News,' and 'Annie Hall' more than 20 times each.

I'm trying to make the Hall of Fame.

You see great players, Hall of Fame players that didn't stay with their team.

For me, hard work and determination got me in the Hall of Fame.

I can't practice every practice or play every play like, 'Oh, I'm trying to get in the Hall of Fame.'