Quotes About Commitment

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.

If the film is a hit, people talk about the hard work, but if it fails, they may not notice, but I give my best for all films.

If you work really hard at something for a really, really long time, you do it well. Eventually, somebody will notice.

It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.

Fight fans always appreciate a fighter who is willing to step up on short notice.

You've really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can't get ready because there's no telling. They'll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.

I've taken fights on short notice while injured to help save shows, and in return I've been taken care of.

I've taken fights on one-day notice.

I put on notice that I'm a serious and for sure you need to take me serious in the heavyweight division.

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.

When I came into the England team I was always being asked whether I 'really' wanted to be a wicketkeeper. It was as though no one had noticed the work I'd already put in to make myself one.

I've been so hesitant to do anything else besides System because you know, when you do something grand and it's noticed so much, everything else you do is secondary.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

People have a wrong notion that film stars don't make good politicians. I must tell those who address stars with derogatory comments that people like us work for the betterment of their constituency with heart and soul.

I applied to only one drama school - if I didn't get in, I would give up the whole notion. That's how much of a chance I was giving myself.

You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn't have had to sacrifice.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.