Time Commitment Quotes

Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor.

Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

As far as television is concerned, I'm just not interested in working on a series. Why should I settle for being someone's second banana? And that weekly grind is unrewarding and too demanding.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

My WWE career has been amazing. It took a lot of time for me to get here, and you never stop paying your dues.

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

The main reason I didn't work in Bollywood was due to the tremendous pressure on me in Bengal.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

'Game of Thrones' is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you've been holding your breath for, like, 30 minutes, which is probably not good for your brain.

I love dogs, but they are a big responsibility, and with four children, having one would be too much.

I am not able to think about this as a job, like work. It's 12 or 13 hours, but for me, it's not working.

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.