Quotes About Commitment

What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.

I think I've always felt that I want to do a very specific type of work and I've made informed decisions. You know, hopefully be part of a quiet movement or revolution.

I was lucky to get good coaches and infrastructure that I needed. To become a champion, it is not just a few months' practice: it takes years to make a champion.

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

Football is something so ingrained in me, something I love doing and definitely something I want to do.

I couldn't really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient, it acts as a Catalyst to a man who is committed.

I'm a culture guy. I sort of know all the familiar ingredients to get something going. Once everyone starts to buy in collectively, then that culture can start being built.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

There are inherent risks playing football, but I think the guys understand it, and the guys not willing to take the risk, who are retiring, that's fine.

I'd set up the Khan Academy as a not-for-profit in 2008, but I was doing well in my job and initially thought I could fund the Academy myself. But by 2009, I was getting so much good feedback that I told my wife that I wanted to do this full time. We had some funds to fall back on, and I knew doing this made me happy.

I initially went into 'Coronation Street' for three months. If they had said back then, 'Do you want to do it for six years?' I probably would have said, 'I don't think so.'

I don't know what kept us together. Initially, both of us were hotheaded, so we would end up fighting a lot. But there was a lot of love and respect, too, I guess. I believe that's the key to a successful marriage.

I was a bit hesitant in theatre initially, but ever since I jumped into it, I have been pretty enthusiastic.

I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.

I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.

I've been injured where you can't play. But if I'm able to get up and move around, I'm not coming off the field.

I fought Swanson when I was injured and I shouldn't have but I wanted to.

If you play a bad game, you can't say it was because you were injured.

Growing up wrestling, you get injured, and they expect you back on the mat in a couple weeks unless it's really bad.

I actually was a competitive gymnast for the first part of my life. From age 6 to 12, I dedicated pretty much everything to that, until I got injured really badly.

Every actor while shooting might have got injured during the shoot, and the same happened with me but I continued with work.

For me, I've wrestled since I was 12 years old, so I've never had time off or been injured.

Acting is one such profession where, unless you are admitted to the hospital, you have to continue to shoot even if you are injured or ill.