Quotes About Determination

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.

I can't be bullied by producers.

The 'Okay-I'll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don't-think-it-will-work' attitude produces failures.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

After 'Grahan,' you'd be nuts to think I'd try producing again!

Coming from a country that loves tennis, actually, there are a lot of people who play. We definitely face a lot of challenges when it comes to producing tennis players.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

I am not in competition with anybody; I just want to be productive.

One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.

We can do things and not be the best. Maybe you were late to work but by god at least you got to work. You may not have the most productive day but well bloody done for getting out from under the duvet.

I think that's particularly important in the playoffs when you're facing good pitching. You've got to go up and just anyway you can try to be productive.

If I allowed fear to dictate my life, I would not be productive.

You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone.

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.