Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

I'm not going to be their spear catcher for the rest of this year.

Work is hard, and jobs can be dull. But you can't just take a holiday when you feel like it. You turn up because it is the right thing to do.

What I do is I do my job.

I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.

Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there are things to do.” “Here, too,” she said. “And I’m staying here, believe me.” Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, “Bob would be very disappointed in you.” “Bob the spider?” “He looks at you like a mother, you know. I’m surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for—” She hung up on him and turned the phone on vibrate and relaxed in Shane’s arms.

But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

I take my responsibilities very seriously.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

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.'

What do you expect me to do about it?

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

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

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.

I've always showed up. If I got paid.