Quotes About Determination

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.

I hung onto Hollywood by the skin of my teeth, and at first I fought over every piece of bread. Later, I got very small parts.

My aunt has this video from when I was 6 years old, no teeth or nothing, and I told my mom and my aunt that I was going to the NFL.

I like getting my hand raised and I'll take it any way I can get it. Slipping on a banana peel, by the skin of my teeth. By any means, you know?

I got my teeth kicked in for a good 25 years.

When Leo runs, the rest of us only have to grit our teeth. He is the best and he makes us all a little better.

When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.

After finishing my study in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), I was mentally prepared for the struggle in the film industry.

My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.

If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

What I would tell a kid with ADHD and dyslexia or someone who struggles with anything in life is this: 'When you put your mind to it, you can do anything.'

I can't let anybody tell me what I'm going to be.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'