Quotes About Commitment

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

You don't play eight years and all of a sudden let your game go down just for a trade.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

I would have to change my entire life if I went into acting. I dance eight hours a day, and then suddenly to be sitting on a set for 12 hours a day is a big difference for my health.

I've gotten a lot more disciplined since dating Sue.

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

If a guy has five good games and then starts to go out, drink, sleep late, live the wrong kind of lifestyle, then his performances will always suffer.

To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification.

I started modelling at the age of 16 and always aspired to be an actor. But my family only agreed to it on the condition that I would not let my studies suffer because of my work.

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

Right now, I think I have time to be three things, in no particular order: a father, a husband, and a filmmaker. That's why I don't go out - I have no space for it. I feel like one of those main things would suffer.

You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

It's easy to let your family suffer for your work. Many of us do this because we see our jobs as a means of maintaining our families. We have thoughts such as 'I need to make more money so that my kids can go to college debt-free.'