Quotes About Determination

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.

I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

I wanted to be a prominent actress and for that I really worked hard.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can't lose.

Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea.

I promise I will get up every day, determined to make a difference... I am ready to serve.

If I wasn't from Philly, I couldn't promise you that I would have the same drive and the same ambition because, as a little kid, I always saw myself as making it out, and I would escape with television.

You can't promise to win a game, but you can want to win a game.

The only way to beat Georges St-Pierre, there's two ways: knock him out, or do the same thing he does to everyone else, and guess what, my wrestling is good enough to make sure I can do what he does to everyone else. I promise you that.

If you really want something, you just have to promise yourself that you won't stop until it happens.

I'm not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.

I promise you I'm going to make more plays than I drop.