Quotes About Persistence

Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

I can imagine they're asking for someone, and someone is asking for me. Everyone knows I keep asking for Wonderboy, and I will - I'll keep knocking on the door.

I'd turn up to the gym early and just be there, waiting outside, knocking on the door. It was something I thought I was decent at. I enjoyed fighting; it's how I've always been.

I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

Eric Church knocks down doors everywhere he goes.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

No matter how often I was knocked to the ground, I always got up. Nothing knocks me down.

I'm great at untangling knots and will sit there for 20 minutes until it's done.

It's really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself.

Whatever you see in games, Kobe demands more in practice.

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

I built Kosovo for 10 years.

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.

In La Liga you are awarded for consistency.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

It was not easy to get rid of that 'tv actor' label.

I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'