Quotes About Persistence

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I wanted to go and I wanted to drive the miles for no pay, I wanted to set up the rings, I wanted to set up the chairs, I wanted to go to training six-seven days a week for hours upon hours and blow myself up to where I can only work on instinct. I wanted to sleep in my car. I wanted to do all of that.

When I look back on my life, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, have I swum the entire world? How many miles have I actually swam?'

Milk Duds kept me going.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day.

I will return and I will be a million.

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

I love the art of acting, so whether I do it on film with a million people seeing me or I do it in front of 20 people in a class showcasing my art, I am going to act whether anyone sees it or everyone sees it.

There's going to be a million people that tell you 'No' when you're starting out to do something. But, all you need is that one person to tell you 'Yes,' who's going to believe in you. But first, you need to believe in yourself.

I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.

If you haven't truly died a million times as a comic you haven't gigged enough!

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

See, there are just that many in 'character' roles that you can get. So I will wait for something mind-blowing to come my way.

My dad worked all his life, an engineer, 30 years, week in, week out at the same machine. That is mind-boggling to me. I do not know how the hell he did it.

I've always been bloody single minded, which is probably why I've been in the game so long.

In your mindset, you just have to know there's going to be another opportunity, and you have to keep focused.

I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.

'Never give in' was my mindset.