Quotes About Determination

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

There are certain roles that you really want to get, but you need to learn to deal with the rejection.

There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.

This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told 'No' an awful lot of the time. You have to keep getting up and carrying on to get to where you want to go.

I'm sure a lot of people go into this industry quite blind as to what it will be like. There's a lot of rejection, but I knew that. My parents have been super-supportive, they told me from the start, 'Just keep going.'

Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, 'It didn't go your way,' I felt the layers of my skin growing. 'OK, cool, let's move on.' You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it's intense.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

I relate my life a lot to 'Cool Runnings,' the movie.

Women who have managed to get successful normally have had to carve out pretty much their own route for doing it, because there are few roadmaps for how, as a woman, you become successful. You think about having to do it yourself, you carve your own way. Does that relate to being Jewish?

Moana is such an amazing character. She's brave; she is so empowered. She knows what she wants, and she's not afraid to get it, and I think that's something that I can relate to as well. I just love watching how she goes along in this wonderful movie and grows as a person and helps her culture along the way.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.

I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself.

The first half of the 2014-15 season was a disaster for me in relation to my weight.

Disabilities are a very relative condition, it is something that defines a situation, but if you can't jump over the problem then you can certainly go around it.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

I think that relative to my normal levels of performance I am one of the best at being able to raise my game for the majors, and that what is giving me so much self-belief.

Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

Relatively few people should start companies.

I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that's what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.

I went to a good school, played sports; things came relatively easy for me. Whenever I would get faced with adversity, I would always go do something else.

Ever since I was five, I had told my relatives I wanted to be an actress.