Quotes About Commitment

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.

My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.

I believe when you work hard, even if you are a mediocre actor, the audience connects to you.

You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

We try to do music with a conscience. We'd never look back and say, 'We are embarrassed or ashamed.' It paid off for us.

I loved my work, and it was a conscious decision to give my best all the time.

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

You know, that, with every choice you make there are consequences. And so if you have an amazing husband and you have a child, you go outside that marriage and outside that relationship, there are consequences that follow.

I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.

There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

You got to surround yourself with the strongest in the world, the strongest training partners and the best people. That's what I do.

You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.