Quotes About Persistence

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

As long as there are chances, we have to fight to the end. That's Madrid's philosophy.

Nobody is going to keep giving me chances even after two-three of my films don't do well.

You have to work hard and your chances will come.

You only miss many chances when you create many chances.

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

If you run from a bear, it'll chase you. And they can run fast.

It's really hard to chase a lofty dream.

I really chase the things that I want.

I like to run a lot. I like to chase the ball.

For acting, once I am doing a movie, I am fully into that. But I am not one to chase films. When it comes, it comes.

Every day I chase to win. I don't chase to lose.

It gives me cancer to have an idea but not do it. Whether I get into trouble for it is not as important as the need to chase the idea.

I chased my dream, worked hard for it, and now I am actually living that dream. This doesn't happen to everyone.

I managed to find this awesome woman - Rajlakshmi, chased her for two years and finally got married.