Martin Parr Quotes

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

Put your life into it - it's not that hard.

I don't want anyone to expect anything from me. I just want them to know that I'm gonna put 1,037% into whatever I do. If I tell you I'm gonna release a folk/reggae/country album, just know at bare minimum there's gonna be 1,010% put into it.

I work really hard on my craft.

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.

I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.