Quotes About Commitment

I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.

I know everyone claims that their cast is 'really close,' but I think the bond we share in 'Newsies' is unique. In the show, these boys risk everything in the name of brotherhood, and I feel that same way about the guys in my cast.

The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.

I like people who have clarity about their work.

I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

I'm open to anything interesting as long as it doesn't clash with my schedule as a mom and wife.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

When other students would study after classes, I would go out again to work out and then study in the night.

Big-time college ball is a business, and they work you to death. You're in the gym at 7 A. M., got classes all morning, then five hours of practice a day.

I loved acting classes, but it was very low key. Never a job job.

The rollout of a classic has to have the heart of all the people working it. There's no way they can have their heart in it if they don't believe in it.

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.

All the sacrifices, extra time I spent off the field in the classroom, I just want to see that pay off.

When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.

I came to Turin above all for my family, because at Manchester, they had inserted a clause in our agreement which changed the situation considerably. It really annoyed me.

I think with 'Claws,' it came at such a perfect time where I really started to focus and to take myself seriously.

Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future.

I personally would rather do the Master Cleanse for ten days than just eat salad for six months.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

I went back to high school and decided that I wanted to be a kid for a while, whatever that means, but once again I found myself back with acting, so clearly I couldn't escape the passion.