Quotes About Motivation

It is not like if one film of mine doesn't work then I am going to pack my bags. It all depends on how much determination I have to want something.

I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.

No one wants to move if they have a choice - it's a horrible experience. If I manage to address their issue, there's really no incentive to pack up and leave.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.

Anyone can sit down and write two pages of a novel, then forget about it, and a week later write five pages of a screenplay, then forget about it, and a week later start another novel... etc, etc.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.

I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.