Quotes About Commitment

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

I had a boyfriend for a long time and I've never really been single as an adult.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.