Quotes About Responsibility

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

When someone says, 'How long do you see yourself captaining for?' you don't really know.

Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.

I definitely feel like I'm the scapegoat for a lot of The Process issues.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'

I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.

When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.

You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

Third books are a scary thing. They come with the weight of so much expectation, and I've been keenly aware of that.

There are scenarios when I wish I would have made some different choices with the playcall.

Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

Trying to work out my schedule is hard but I'm lucky I have two great teams who take care of it all.

Everybody's schedule is crazy in the NBA, so that can't be an excuse.

I'm just the sister of the future Prince, and my children come first. I work my schedule around them.

I told myself I was going to get a scholarship so I could get a degree and take care of my family.

As a mom, I know how important it is for my son Kiyan to stay healthy so he doesn't miss school days.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.