Quotes About Determination

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

All I know is this: The reason that I've gotten attention from this industry is that I just kept making films until they paid attention.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

I can handle pain.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

I can take more pain than anyone.

First time you step on these new legs, it's bloody hard. It's painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.

It can get discouraging - 'Oh, it didn't work,' or, 'Oh, I lost the baby,' or, 'I can't do this again.' You can. And when you get the kid, you'll be happy that you did. But it's a very painful process for a lot of people. You just have to figure out how it's gonna get done.

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'

It wasn't easy to shoot for 'Baahubali.' It was very painful and annoying.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.

There's not a woman in this world that can beat me if we put on a pair of gloves and we fight. I've accomplished so much.

I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.

I remember one time I went to Craigslist to find something; that's how bad I wanted it. It was a pair of Raf Simons - this was like 2010. But Raf said he was going to make them for me.

I remember going home one day and telling my brother that I was going to give up football because I was 17 and was too old. My brother said he wouldn't let me. He got me my first pair of real boots and those were the boots I managed to become professional in.