Quotes About Persistence

I think everything's a part and parcel of being in this profession, rejection being a huge, huge part of it, and I can't tell you how grateful I am for all those rejections because one thing that I understand is that you have to be really, really strong headed, you have to be very level headed, If you want to be in this industry.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started getting more encouraging rejection letters.

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

There are certain roles that you really want to get, but you need to learn to deal with the rejection.

There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.

This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told 'No' an awful lot of the time. You have to keep getting up and carrying on to get to where you want to go.

What is rejection? Rejection is something that you try and you don't get.

Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, 'It didn't go your way,' I felt the layers of my skin growing. 'OK, cool, let's move on.' You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it's intense.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Not many people know my father was an actor. He was the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver!,' and was in a film called 'Frauds,' too. It's interesting talking to him about acting, how much you can get turned down, and how not to take that as a discouragement. It's nice to have that element to relate to for us both.

I relate my life a lot to 'Cool Runnings,' the movie.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Within my second month of being in L.A., I booked my first audition. It was, like, a co-star on a show called 'Gang Related.' I got cut out of it.

I worked extremely hard and dedicated my life to pro wrestling but the more I grow in ways not related to work, my work grows.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Disabilities are a very relative condition, it is something that defines a situation, but if you can't jump over the problem then you can certainly go around it.

Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

When I told my parents that I wanted to be an actor, they were like, 'How can you be an actor? You have to go out and interact with people! You hardly talk to our relatives!'

When something is great, then you can sit back after the work is done and relax, but during the process I definitely am making sure everything is really, really good.