Quotes About Determination

I think a lot of people look at athletes in general and think they have everything figured out. They made it to the big leagues... We're battling and going through the same stuff everyone else is going through, but just in a different way. Maybe it can be comforting knowing that we have to battle through some of the same stuff.

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

I just want to say that we Filipino are strong.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

I want to get something done but I am scared. I said I want to get a filler done. Very little, obviously.

I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

I don't think the failure of one film means the end of your career.

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

It's never easy for an actor who doesn't have connections in the film industry and who has to start from scratch.

Though there is lot of struggle, nothing deterred my ambition to get into the film industry.

I didn't go to film school.

I did not go to film school.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

When I was 16, I'd been cast in 'Fast Food Nation.' And while I was playing in a charity baseball game, I ended up breaking my arm about a week before filming was starting.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.