Quotes About Commitment

Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.