Quotes About Determination

I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

I felt intimidated the entire time I was in school by my teachers and classmates. But I just knew acting was something I wanted to do.

I'm not intimidated by anyone.

I won't be intimidated by any player or team, I think that is fundamental in football if you want to do well.

I'm not afraid of any competition. I'm not going to be intimidated by any player or team. That is fundamental in football if you want to do well.

I ain't intimidated by Mayweather. Nobody could intimidate me.

I don't get intimidated, you know. Because I feel like when you get intimidated, you become nervous, and then you turn to fear.

You can't worry about intimidating me and playing the game at the same time.

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.

If you can introduce 'Newsround' with a fluffy Gopher squeaking next to you, you can handle anything!

At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'

I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.

I was very introverted as a child and as an adult. But something inside told me that I needed to express myself, and it would be on the big screen.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.

But I didnt feel like an invalid even for a second. I knew that I could never be the player that I was, so I wanted to do something different - so different that everybody would say that it would be impossible.

The most important and invaluable lesson I've learnt in the past 20 years of being in filmdom is to never look back.

The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.