Quotes About Commitment

You leave a little bit of yourself behind in every case," Ray Pincher said. "Not that you want to, but that the practice of law demands it." "True enough," I said. "There's a lot of me smeared on a lot of courtroom floors.

A Friend Will Help You Move. A Real Friend Will Help You Move a Body.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter's lacrosse game.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]

On considering adultery - Why go out for hamburger when I can have steak at home?

It will not compete. It demands top priority in the alcoholic's life.

Sobriety must come before everything else.

All of this is easier to say than to do.

In A.A. we frequently hear action slogans such as: Keep coming back; Action is the magic word; Bring the body and the mind will follow; You can't think yourself into right acting, but you can act your way into right thinking; Sit down, shut up and listen.

He stopped going to meetings, and no longer follows his exercise program.

Pray and get ready for it. When you are ready, get by yourself, pray for guidance, and finally give the entire matter and everything connected to it to God. Tell God you are giving this person and the entire business to Him, complete in every detail.

Change has a price tag, sometimes expensive yet easy to pay where there's a will!

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

The miracle," Claire said, "is that anybody stays together.