Quotes About Persistence

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

There is always something coming up and I honestly want to be in NXT for a long long time.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

While I do my work with a sense of honesty, I tell myself, 'What is the worst that can happen? I fail, right?' So, will I stop living after that? No. I will try again.

Every three months, I'll say, 'Honey, I think I should learn how to cook'.

From the time I was 2, I told my mom I was going to be a singer. And she'd say, 'Sure, honey, and tomorrow you'll want to be a dancer.'

I will work hard at honing my acting and singing.

I like to do everything to the best and to the extreme, and for me that's a big part of why I came to Ring Of Honor.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an enormous number of mistakes that are made along the way.

You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.

I've got a good right hook.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

No matter what a guy says, if he shows up at all the places you're at, he's hooked.

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

My grandma used to have a backyard and we put a hoop, a shaky hoop, up there. We used to just shoot at it. We shot at it so many times, we broke it. We had to get a better one, because that one wasn't good at all.

I've always just sort of bashed ahead with my life and hoped that it would all eventually make some sense.

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.