Elijah Wood Quotes

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

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'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

'Siya Ke Ram' will leave us with hardly any scope to think of other projects. And I wouldn't want to work on something and not be whole-hearted in it, either.

If loving your job qualifies you as a workaholic, then yes, I am one for sure!

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

I love my work and that's the only thing I think about.

I am a professional that likes to concentrate on my job during the games.

What I want is players who are 100 per cent committed.

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

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.

Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.