Quotes About Responsibility

When you're directing, you look around and you think, everything I see is my responsibility. From the catering being on time to whether the clouds are moving the way I need them to move to whether this actor is giving the performance I want to whether the costumes are what they should be.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

I care deeply about the direction of our country.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

When it's time to play, I'm going to come play. I'm going to play the right way. I'm going to try to help my team in all directions, blocking and catching. If I don't have the ball in my hand, I'm going to protect, block down the field. I'm going to do whatever it takes to win.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

My team-mates appreciate that I do the dirty work and I know it is necessary.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

I'm waiting for better scripts to come my way, especially because I'm aware that there are people who are waiting to see me come back; and I don't want to disappoint them.

I never wanted to disappoint my family at all.

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

I wouldn't want to disappoint my family, my friends, my fans.

When your kids disappoint you, you tell them off; you don't give them some chocolate, do you? You treat players similar to how you treat your kids, really.

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.