Quotes About Determination

I grew up watching 'Rocky.' I still love that movie, the original one.

I kind of grew up just watching Dew Tour and X-Games.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

I was watching TV once, and 'Jailhouse Rock' comes on, and I'm like, 'What is this?' I started watching it, and at the end, I thought, 'This is what I want to do. That's what I want to be. That's for me. That's it!'

I'm not the sort of person who would want to just lie on the sofa watching TV.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Give me 30 minutes rest, little drink of water. Give me 30 minutes, and I can fight with anybody.

I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.

I'm a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

It is a proud tradition and fighting trait of our army and people to rise up like mountains and go through fire and water to unfailingly carry through the party's orders and instructions.

It's fairly easy to know when you've succeeded because you're kind of hanging on for dear life. It's such an unstoppable juggernaut; you're trying to stay with your head above water because things are moving so fast.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

When I was working abroad, there was a time when I almost gave up because of my problem with my working visa in Canada. I remember that I collected bottles of mineral water and sold them to earn extra money.

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

With imagery, as actors know, you can make up anything you want to. You can put yourself in icy water to get rid of this or that.

Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'