Quotes About Commitment

To win the Stanley Cup is such a process and it takes everybody on board.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.

I believe in the morals that I do. I believe in the projects I take part in and I think that has been my north star.

No, I'm not doing 'Star Wars.'

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

I think stardom means a big responsibility that one has to shoulder.

It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom.

I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

You have to go to sleep at night staring at the wall, thinking, 'Damn, I can't wait for it to be morning so I can have the ball at my feet again!' You can only play your best football in these conditions.

It's a pretty stark choice: you either deal with the dangers of the sport or you get out of the car.

I don't remember the decision to be an actor. It was just... a very stark interest.

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people's children stars.

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.

I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoaks' took the fee. But I couldn't say no to everything. I felt lucky to have the job I was doing, so I went along with it. And when I did 'Maxim,' I knew that stars like Eva Longoria had also been on the cover, so I was in good company.

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.