Quotes About Commitment

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

I work without commercial considerations.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

I just have to keep working hard.