Quotes About Determination

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

The more I can get into my brain the more I can produce on the field.

I like to produce my own movies.

I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.

Your brain is triggered to produce.

It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

If you're playing against someone, you always want them playing flat out and at their best - so when you are successful you know you've produced a really good performance.

I never doubted that if I applied myself and tried to learn that I would good at it. I've had a lot of lucky turns, no doubt. But it's actually been a fairly direct line from control-freak, cartoon-obsessed kindergartner to control-freak, cartoon-obsessed executive producer.

People were like, 'You're crazy. You're going to lose all your credibility and fans.' But I wanted to try new things and make my own music. So I became a producer.

When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.

I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

No one ever said that I couldn't create my own projects, but no one actually told me that I could be an executive producer, either.

It takes a lot of drive to succeed as an independent producer.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I didn't knock on any producers' doors for work.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

If not for the producers' conviction in me, I wouldn't have had the faith to pull off 'Prince.'