Quotes About Commitment

I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life - Josef Albers, painter; Buckminster Fuller, inventor; Max Dehn, the mathematician, and many others. Through them, I came to understand the total commitment required if one must be an artist.

I saw 'The Sting' about 35 times and 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Billy Jack' about 50 times.

We're a busy family. We like challenges, and we like to be fully engaged with life. I've done that as long as I've been with Sting.

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Shakespeare was the main thing I did in my life from the age of 16 when I first played 'Hamlet' at school. I then did summer stock the next summer and then went to RADA and joined the RSC and ran my own company and then worked at the Globe. That was about 30 years of my life.

I had the offer to race Stock Cars. I refused the first time.

What we'll do is at the beginning of every season we'll take stock of everything and decide we have enough stuff to keep going and whether we want to do it, and then we do it.

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

Mark Hughes convinced me to come to Stoke, he has helped me and showed his trust in me from the beginning.

As soon as I was given the opportunity at Stoke it was head down, this is what I want. This is where I want to be, this is my opportunity and I was fully confident about taking it.

I want to stay at Stoke and play for Stoke.

Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.

You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.

Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.

You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.

When I am doing a role, I don't think that I am getting to wear a mini skirt or show my stomach. I am doing a role because I am an actor.