Quotes About Persistence

Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

You can tell me to stop any time you want, but you won't.

A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

Think big. Make a plan and stick to it, and you can do anything you want to do.

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.