Quotes About Determination

You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it's a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you've gotta do to try to get a win.

Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.

It doesn't matter who picks me up, I'm going to try and be a franchise player for them.

My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether live or pickup, coach in the gym or not.

You can't really be picky and choosy for your first lead role.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.