Quotes About Effort

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

If I get wickets owing to mistakes of batsmen, I am not satisfied from the inside.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I can't stop, I always have to try and keep a good pace and that's what I'll do.

You know if you have driven well or not, but sometimes because of the car or package you simply cannot do any more.

The best players try to not slow down when they put the pads on.

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.

There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.

If you want to achieve a real labour of love, it can be painful, too.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

For me, filming is always like delivery pains.

I've found during the times when I've gone through several rounds of auditions that they have really taken pains to consider me, and that makes an enormous difference.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.