Quotes About Determination

I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

I really asked myself, "Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?" That's what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.

I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back.

I have proven people wrong so many times. I was told when I was younger there is no chance I will make the top 100, top 50, top 30. Every time I have proven them wrong. It's kind of nice.