Quotes About Determination

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

My head is in the game! Like 'High School Musical' taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don't have to take yourself seriously.

If you work hard and you believe in your craft and yourself, I don't think nobody can stop you.

I know a lot of people will talk crap at me, but they can say whatever they want.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

Crap happens, you know? It happens, especially when you're in this sport long enough.

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

When you're driven to your absolute limit, working 14 hours for 14 days straight, you have to know what you want, and not listen to all this other crap outside.

I was fortunate enough to crash the right audition when I was 15, and just took it from there.

I'm in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don't want to keep crawling back up. I'm too old to be doing that, man.

I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

I'm not the best fighter but I'm the craziest fighter.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

If I want someone, I can go to any extent to get him. My craziness for a man has no limits at all.

You have to believe in yourself and have to believe you are a little bit crazy to be the best.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

I've created the life I wanted.

I want to be the team that creates the action more than be the reactor.

Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all.

Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy.

Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.