Quotes About Commitment

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

I can concentrate on my art.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

I don't really have hobbies. ?ombat arts was a hobby that became a career.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

Believe in the importance of your art.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.