Quotes About Commitment

I think fighters for a long time, were afraid to pull out of fights for many reasons. Like sitting on the shelf for a long time due to not having as many fight cards back then. Feeling like a wuss, disappointing the boss and fans, or just needing the money.

Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.

Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Family first, always, no matter what the situation.

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.

It doesn't really matter the score or the situation: I got a job to do.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years.

It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?

My father was a busy man who would do six to seven films a year.

The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that's a six or seven year commitment.

I've recorded 25 to 30 songs in a single night, singing five or six takes of each song. I'm very disciplined.