Quotes About Determination

High expectations are the key to everything.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

The key is to be the best-prepared possible and that is my commitment to the club.

I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'

I hitchhiked to L.A. with $100 and a keyboard.

I was getting a little bit bullied by guys who thought I was taking their customers, and it got to the point where I was anxious every time I set up my keyboard.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

Sometimes it takes me a little longer to kick into my gears.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

I feel like whenever I do a movie, people think, 'Well, that's good, but that's probably the best he'll do.' I sort of bang and bang and kick in a door, and people say, 'Now a million doors will open for you.' And they don't.

For me, I usually play the kick -butt, strong business type.

For me, I don't kick because I don't have legs.

Anytime I'm on the field, I need to make every kick that's in front of me.

A lot of people can kick a ball a long way, but sometimes you get in a little funk and you work your way out of it.

So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like 'Lord of the Rings' until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.

I'm an adventurer. There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd love to do an Angelina Jolie and dress in lycra and kick the crap out of somebody in a movie. It doesn't matter how rubbish the script is.

I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

Many times players have done stuff to me, like kick me. But I'm not a cry baby.