Quotes About Commitment

When I did my first student film, it was a ten minute film and it cost $U.S.4,000. I worked three jobs to pay for that and I haven't really slept since.

I worked pretty much 18-hour days and slept three to five hours each night, which, frankly, is just not enough.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

Single-camera is more relentless because it's eight 14-hour days no matter how you slice it.

I bought a Hofner guitar and amplifier for 32 guineas, then spent ages trying to make a bottleneck. At that point, I was meant to be developing my father's ice-cream cafe into a global concern, but I spent all my time in the stockroom playing slide guitar.

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

It can be easy to let all sorts of things in your life slide, including your relationship.

Every time you go out, you want to help your team, play your best and don't let any opportunities slide by.

When I bought my first little flat, it was two bedrooms, so I got Sarah Phelps to live with me. My years-later-to-be husband was slightly thinking, 'Why are you inviting your friends to live with you?' I was very resistant to leaving my friends.

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

I have four boys aged 10 and under. Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it is not something you just wear and take off.

I think it's important for service to be a part of your life instead of an option. It's awesome to make it a point to do something that's gonna make the world slightly better than you left it.

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

I think having a kid is going to make me work harder in a way that's slightly overdue.

Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I've never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.

I don't want to be a player that signs a long-term deal and towards the end is resented, either by the fan base, by the organization, or on my end for having my performance slip below what my contract dictates.

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.

For somebody like me who doesn't bowl, it's important to contribute in the field, and I've worked hard on that, slip catching.

When you let that discipline slip you're going to have big problems on the field.

Players have exams, banquets, awards, and holidays, so it's easy to slip up and lose focus.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.