Quotes About Persistence

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.

I want to win a major, and hopefully I can win the four majors in one year.

You've got to stay positive and go out and work as hard as you can to fix things, and there are going to be adjustments throughout your career, and hopefully it's a long one, so figuring out how to stay out there and get people out is part of baseball.

I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.

I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I did that for two years, and the third year I came down, I auditioned for 'How I Met Your Mother.'

I've never felt acting just happened to me. It's always been a part of my life, and I - hopefully, I'll prove that with every project of mine.

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

You make shows, and you don't go into it thinking, 'Our show's going to be number one'; you go into it hoping to stay on the air.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

As comedians, we work our whole lives hoping for a break.

There's always something that I will always find to do, because I just enjoy working so much. There's always something on the horizon; it really comes down to scheduling and making it all happen.

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere.

All great films have stories attached to them of how horrific they were to get made.