Quotes About Commitment

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.