Booker T Quotes

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.

I take my work seriously.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.

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.

I have to show up and do my job every day; that's my focus.

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

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

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 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.

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.'

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

When the time comes to work, I work.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

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

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

I have a strong work ethic.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.