Quotes About Persistence

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options.

I don't have a relationship with Yoko. I've tried contacting her many times after John had died. She wouldn't return any of my phone calls.

Here's how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don't even see me coming.

I want to open an eye or two about what being an actor is really like because it's not all red carpets and photo shoots. It's like trying to get that job and going from job to job.

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

I never set out to be a photographer.

I can't express enough to anyone who is fighting for whatever their dream is, whether it's to become a doctor, or a teacher, or a photographer - it doesn't matter - it's such a hard, hard road.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

You've heard the phrase 'There are no small roles, just small actors?' Well, I kind of disagree. There are small roles, but when you get a lot of them in a row, you can become a pretty successful actress, and that's what I've done.

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

I might retire when acting becomes too hard on me physically, but I don't want to give up easily. I really want to have a long-term acting career.

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

Mentally, I am very strong; physically I am very strong. I think that keeps me going. That keeps me strong all the time.

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

I loved music and felt I had enough talent to become a concert pianist, but I was foolish enough to let myself be laughed out ot the idea.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.