Quotes About Persistence

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

You never just do a scene once; you do it an insane amount of times.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.

My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now!

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Acting is my passion but everyone was against it. But mom insisted that her daughter would do what she wanted, no matter how brilliant a student she was.

Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain.

You want to seek out the things that inspire you to keep doing what you're doing.

Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can, too.

I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.

I hope I inspire younger ones. Whatever you're into - sports, whatever - just go and do something.

I am an instance of what is possible with a lot of hard work.

We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.

It is a little bit demoralizing to work a show, and you just try so many times to get something, and the creator just keeps saying, 'No, not that.' Then they just instantly come up with something.

I never entered the industry with hopes of making it big instantly.

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.

If an institution has not made it after 10 years, it shouldn't be around anymore.