Quotes About Persistence

By the time I got someone to take my head shot, I'd been acting for nine years!

I don't have anything to do but get in the cage and show my work and wait for my time.

We can't get in the cage thinking that we'll win quickly, that we'll get the knockout.

I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

I'd do whatever it takes to stay in California; maybe not L.A. because it's so crazy.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

During my whole year as Miss America and afterward, I was calling agents, looking for advice and opportunities. When I was in New York or in Los Angeles doing different appearances, if I had time on my schedule, I tried to meet with executives.

My confidence has grown so much in the past few years that even when I'm not playing my best, I still feel calm on court and find a way to win.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

You have to put your body through hell through training camp, and you've got to be able to take that.

You have to understand that I never thought I would have a career in music. That kind of thing didn't happen. Not for women, not in Canada, not in the 1960s. It was something I did for fun.

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and it trickles down to every aspect of the band.

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make.

I always advise my candidates, 'You better fight to the last bullet.'

We were fortunate enough to shoot 'Alps' - write the script and shoot it - right after 'Dogtooth' premiered in Cannes. So we didn't just sit around and wait to figure out what to do because 'Dogtooth' was successful. We just wanted to make another film fast, so we just went ahead and did it.

Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.

I'll just try and try and perform to the best of my capabilities.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.