Quotes About Responsibility

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

I was so terrified that the business would not do well and that there would be no way that I would be in a position to pay my dad back this $80,000. At Stars, as a line cook, I think that I was making $10 or $12 an hour. So $80,000 - to have to pay that back was incomprehensible.

As a female, you're always terrified that if you blow it, you've blown it for your whole gender.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.

I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.

One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

I have never used my family name to 'cash-in.' Unfortunately, such ridiculous charges come with the territory of coming from a famous and public family.

The feelings and reaction of the fans goes with the territory and if you're not prepared for that then one should not get involved.

If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Abu Mazen has got to do only one thing: to fight terror. That's what he needs to do.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up.

I owe it to the people of Kentucky not to bow to terror, but to continue to do what is right for their families and for mine.

You can't leave the fight against terrorism to the government because it affects us as well.

We have to call out terrorism for what it is, and I have always done that, and the Labour Party has always done that.

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.