Quotes About Persistence

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

The first things I made were absolute pig's ears. I didn't understand about facings, or finishings, or anything.

I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to give up stuff. It's hard to get movies made.

I'm still fighting for parts - it's not like I'm sitting with a big pile of scripts putting them in a 'yes' and 'no' pile.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.

I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

Being in a male-dominated career field as a combat pilot, I got used to kind of blocking out the lies in the attacks that people would levy against me and trying to tell me who I am and define who I am when I know what I'm fighting for.

When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

I have worked with Amitabh Bachchan in 'Pink' and 'Piku.' As soon as one film gets over, he is behind me, asking 'Which is the next film you are going to do with me?'

In my career, if you follow my career and watched everything that I've ever done from the time I was in high school to where I'm at now, I've always been able to reach the pinnacle. In football, I was able to win championships and go to bowl games in college, be an All-American linebacker, and there were a lot of things I was able to accomplish.