Quotes About Commitment

I've been in the mix of great projects for such a long time, I know what it takes.

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie!

When God calls you to do something, and when it's put upon you in such a way that you're boxed in, it has to be.

I think you should be a fan of something first if you intend to spend your life around it. You're going to have days when things don't go your way at the track. On those days, you just have to realize they happen to everybody in his sport and basically just suck it up.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.

I'm going to do everything I can to play at a high level. I say this to a lot of my good friends: 'The minute you see that I suck, tell me and I'm out.' Instead of lying to me, someone let me know!

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?

I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.

Please don't stick with me if I start sucking.

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.

What sucks the most is when you can't even keep a promise to yourself.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

You've got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It's boring. It sucks. You don't get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you've got to have it.

I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.

You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don't realise when love happens.

The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.