Eoin Colfer Quotes

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

I pride myself on what I do every night. I pride myself on my work ethic and how I carry myself. I want to be mature in my approach but focused and disciplined.

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.

Barry Hearn has said there's no time for playboys, but I'm not a playboy.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

I'm definitely not joking around on set.

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

It is important we don't become complacent, do our job and stay professional.

When I came into the league trying to party and having too much of a good time, I found out the hard way how it affected my performance.

I'm pretty serious about what I do.

At the end of the day, I'm a professional. I've got to continue to work hard.

I used to goof off a lot.

Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.

When the time is right I have a laugh and a joke with my friends on a day off, but I have had to make sacrifices, and in that sense it's been a huge step forward, completely different to how it was before. I was 18 when the manager spoke to me. I realised I'm not like any other teenager. I can't be doing stuff any other 18 or 19-year-old was doing.

I think it's highly unprofessional to not make weight.

First of all, as a professional, you can run around saying "artists, schmartists" as much as you want. But I'm a professional, so if somebody hires me for something, I'm going to bring my best to it. They've hired me, I'm professional, I show up on time, I do my job. That's what we're doing. So in that sense, it's always both things.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

If I'm working, then I'm working, and my focus is on that.