Quotes About Determination

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

Not every problem is solvable, okay.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.

It's okay to say what you want to do.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

I am glad I tried something different with 'A Flying Jatt'. I will be okay even if I failed with this film.

Everything isn't just gonna be okay. It doesn't just have to be good.

When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.

It doesn't matter how old you are, with determination you can make your life what you want it to be.

I don't believe in giving in to old age.

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

I'll die a crazy old man!

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

It's going to hurt if I fall. I don't want to deal with that, I want to prove that it can be done for a long life, until I'm an old man.

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.