Quotes About Commitment

Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.

'Battle: Los Angeles' - I've got to say this was easily one of the most physically trying things that I've ever done in my life because I play a Marine in the film, and they had us training with real live Marines for, like, three weeks. It gave me a whole new respect for just the armed forces, period.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist.

When it comes to sports, it requires a lot mentally and physically.

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.

I learnt about being physically fit, captaincy, and the things that really matter when it comes to being a leader and a batsman.

Wrestling is tough, and it takes hard work - mentally and physically - to do what we do in that ring.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

The album 'Physicist,' I erased all the work that I had done halfway through. I think that's probably why that contributed to that album being sort of sub-par for me, just because by the time I had to go back and do it, I was just over it.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.

Every player has his own mantra of working on his physique.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I play piano every day.