Quotes About Effort

A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier.

'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

I know I play with a lot of passion, but from the outside looking in, people say, 'He's passive. Doesn't play hard.' And others say, 'It just comes easy to him. He's smooth.' That's just how I play. Always been the same person.

Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.

I'm about business. I'm going to handle business like a professional. Aside from that, I'm going to give you everything I've got on every snap.

If I have to play every snap for us to have a chance to win, I'm going to do that.

When I come into a camp, a team, I look to be the best player every snap.

Making every snap, every play, every rep count. I think, once you do that, the good things, the stats, they come along with it.

Some people think a series like 'Mayberry' is a snap, but nothing in this world is a snap, unless you want it to be.

You're not necessarily going to sneak out many cheap ones, but the ones that are supposed to be homers are homers when you're playing at home.

I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.

There are so many opportunities at Ring Of Honor. If you do a good job, you get to do more. If you do a crappy job, then you don't.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

It's crazy so many people know my name now. But I really do deserve it because I have put in a lot of work and sacrifices.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

Acting takes so much energy.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.