Quotes About Persistence

I try to keep a regular work schedule.

I'm just a regular Baltimore chick who believed in God enough to follow her dreams.

I don't want to be just a regular great fighter. I want to be the best.

Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.

Some people can get there in three or four games, some need eight or nine, but after 11 games, if you've been playing regularly, you're match-fit.

Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.

I don't think you are ever really done working on something, especially if you can get back into rehearsal.

For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

I used to wake up in the morning, rehearse for two hours, leave for office, travel an hour-and-a-half, then go for shows in the evening.

Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.

Just because my reign had already ended doesn't mean that I have to forget the things I have done as Miss Universe.

If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'

I would go to different production houses everyday for auditions and they would reject me saying you cant talk, smile, dance, or act.

It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in your work, there will be at least five who will reject you.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

I got rejected from all the good drama schools first time.