Quotes About Determination

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

It's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

There are always going to be detractors who will say I don't look like I'll be able to hang with Brock Lesnar. But Brock's a freak of nature, and I don't know anybody who looks like they can 'hang' with Brock Lesnar. But anyone can be choked out in seven seconds.

I'm here to win. I'm here to play, and who I hang out with is my choice.

Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

I didn't want to come back and be mediocre; I wanted to hang in with the girls, and I wanted to prove myself every week.

I just try to hang in there and try to focus every point.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.

Nobody expected me to finish Cub Swanson the way I did. When you see something like that, even I say, 'You're finally here. You're not only hanging with the best of the best, you're finishing them.'

When I decide something, I have to do something to make it happen.

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

It doesn't matter what happened in the season or what happened the last play, there's always an opportunity to make the next play.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world.

I will be happier if I crash by trying than not trying and running around behind the same guy for 70 laps.

I'm sure like everyone else I'm not always the happiest if I don't do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I would have done it happily, but to be a Bond girl isn't everything I aim for as an actress.

I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.