Quotes About Persistence

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

'EastEnders' changed everything. I was a jobbing actress living in Stepney, and I was on the dole at one point. Then people started to send me scripts, which was always my dream.

Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I did not play my first full season until I was 21.

I certainly wouldn't buy a DVD series of a hit show and start at Season 7. I would want to go back and start from the beginning.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

Seasons just don't go easy all the way through.

You know how things go in football. Seasons are long, and you have to see how things progress.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

I want to act every second of every day.

Most people don't make it to a second album.

Just because I'm not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn't mean I'm not working.

A fight is usually longer than five seconds.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

There are days when I don't count sets at all, but then there are some days when I have to realize that I don't want to overwork because I still have an hour of cardio ahead of me or another training session later that day.

We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.

The only business owners that fail are the ones who gave up.

When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years.

You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere... Eventually, you'll get there.