Quotes About Determination

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

We're just not the type of artists that take anything for granted and just feel like, 'Oh yeah, you just know something great is going to happen.' We're not like that.

I did a bit of everything, and I was never beaten. I was into Bruce Lee, mate. Oh yeah! I love my combat sports.

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

I moved to L.A. at 17, and for the fist time, I had to realize that if I run out of money, I'm moving back to Ohio - and I didn't want to do that at all.

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

I love that I can demonstrate that it's OK to look and be strong.

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

My goal is to always be a transformational leader, and to go big. And when you go big, you don't always win. And I'm OK with that.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

All my life, I've been winning, ok?