Effort quotes

“- Luke Skywalker: All right, I'll give it a try.
- Yoda: No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”
Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker
Frank Oz - Yoda

“Don’t throw effort after foolishness.”
Kirk Douglas - Spur

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
Edgar Bergen

“We're a team. One person struggles, we all struggle. One person triumphs, we all triumph.”

“Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?”
Brecht Andersch - Dostoyevsky Wannabe

“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket, the least understood and the least noticed.”
Frank Capra

“We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It's exhausting!”
Edward James Olmos - Abraham Quintanilla

“We do things as a team, gentlemen.”
Ed Harris - Coach Jones

“As he lifted the 400-pound weights above his head, he was in agony... but he bore it in silence.”

Tom Selleck - Phil Blackwood

“A promise tomorrow is worth a lot less than trying today.”
Judy Greer - Karen

“Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.”
Matthew Goode

“The important thing is the effort, not what we achieve.”
Gunnar Björnstrand - Mr. Vogler

“I made you look like a prince on the outside, but I didn't change anything on the inside. Prince Ali got you to the door, but Aladdin has to open it.”

Will Smith - The Genie

“Apathy is the solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it. It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it. Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work.”
Morgan Freeman - Somerset

“- Nicky: Now attention is like a spotlight, and our job, is to dance in the darkness.
- Jess: I didn't even feel you take that.
- Nicky: The human brain is slow, and it can not multitask.”

Will Smith - Nicky
Margot Robbie - Jess

“It's kind of like a steering wheel where, you know, are you pulling it down, or are you pushing up? It's kind of, you're doing both at the same time. And so that's what life is. It's a push-pull.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask

“The toughest three pictures I ever made.”

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“The physical labour actors have to do wouldn't tax an embryo.”
Spencer Tracy

“I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.”
Burt Lancaster

“Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.”
Burt Lancaster

“The most trying work time with an actress I can ever recall.”

Charlton Heston On Sophia Loren

“The more you get hit, the harder you fight.”
Rachel McAdams - Maureen Hope

“A man can make more money with less effort in the movies than in any other profession.”
George Sanders

“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: You do believe me, don't you?
- Sally Salt: I'm doing my best.”
John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen
Sarah Polley - Sally Salt

“- Sheila: Why didn't you wear your blue dress?
- Eilis Lacey: Are you asking why I didn't make more of an effort?”
Nora-Jane Noone - Sheila
Saoirse Una Ronan - Eilis