Quotes About Commitment

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

Getting onto 'Jeopardy!' was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.

I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.

I've had three marriages end in disaster. Lynne knew the score when she married me. It was always just a matter of time before she became the fourth ex-Mrs. Peter Sellers.

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

It's not that I was not getting offers but I don't want to do petty and insignificant roles again and again.

People ask me how I sang the role of the 'Phantom' 1,700 times. And I say that it's down to good material. If it did not have good material, I would have had a major problem doing it for that length of time.

When I was 30 we had two kids, a third on he way. I was working for a pharmaceutical company. I had been married four years.

I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

There was a phase where nothing was going right, and the thought crossed my mind that what is going to happen. Since I had no Plan B, I was sure from the beginning that I love acting and this is what I want to do for the rest of my life, so I had to be ready to struggle.

I have worked really hard since the age of eight, so each phase of my life is equally important.

I am not in 'O I hate relationships' phase. I will never be in that phase.

Whatever subject I choose, I do a PhD in it.

There's a reason that football players, that still choose to come over to train MMA. They're professional and phenomenal freak athletes and they know how to work as professional athletes. They know how to get better and know how to improve.

I wasn't a washout before, and I'm not a phenomenon now. I'm a player who, when he's called upon, is almost always there.

I feel really lucky. There wasn't a doubt in my mind when Phil asked me to marry him.

Phil is of a generation that probably would have been happier never getting married. He just doesn't want to get married again; it's not that he doesn't want to marry me. It took me a while to understand that, and I'm fine with it now. We've been together for over 10 years. This relationship has been my longest and most successful.

I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.

I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.

I want to hire guys that fit that mold; I want guys where it's about the Philadelphia Eagles first, that check their egos at the door.

I see how the fans are in Philadelphia. I like them. They're true fans. They may like players, but they're so loyal to the franchise and that's how it should be.