Quotes About Persistence

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

I'm a work horse.

I was very much a work horse my whole life.

I have fallen off many horses.

I been going to the hospital since I was born, about 10 times a year, for about a week or two each time.

Actually, acting and hosting shows just happened on the way, and I will do it 'til it lasts and then concentrate on writing.

My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

I think about work 24 hours a day. But when you fly a helicopter, for that hour or two you can't think about anything else.

Success doesn't find you when you're alone in your house.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the football field.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done, and I want to do as much as I can in my lifetime. I love doing it. If I didn't have that passion or love for it, I wouldn't do it.

Sometimes I have to sit and look back and think how far I've gone.