Quotes About Persistence

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That's our motto.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

I work really hard and have rolled up my sleeves for a long time to get the opportunities I've had.

I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.

I slept in closets and on floors for a long time.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish - just in a slightly bigger pond.

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

My goal is always to do something that feels just beyond my reach, and 'Homeland' continues to do that. Every season, they find new ways to scare me. The show is like a diamond that fell from the sky. I'll always feel slightly bludgeoned by it, but in the best way possible.

Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.