Lea Salonga Quotes

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

That's something I pride myself on, playing every single game.

My approach to this game for 14 years that I've been in this league is to play hard and give my 100 percent, whatever I have.

I just try to come in every single day and be professional and work as hard as I can. I feel like you can't replace that.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

I have one goal every single year, and that's to play every single game.

I'm going to show up and do my job to the best of my abilities every day, every week.

I worked every day. I never turned down a stunt.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

I work every single day, even on Sundays.

I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.