Quotes About Persistence

I never thought I would do a TV show, I never thought I could do it, so I was not expecting a really good performance. It was more about building confidence, and good or bad, I was encouraging other people and pushing myself.

What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate & Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick.

I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sidekick and a band, and I wrote the whole thing. And it had the form of a late-night talk show, but we did it on stage because no one was giving me a TV show at the time.

I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.

You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

Hopefully I've inspired a lot of people who thought they'd never be able to get their own TV show to give it a go.

I lived in my parents' basement until the age of 25 while I was trying to get my TV show off the ground.

Getting a TV show and getting on to Discovery was the main goal when I started the company in 2004.

I'd like to get my own TV show on, whether it's a talk show or a comedy, that I write.

I have 50 rejected TV show ideas. I think when I hit 100, then I'll feel like I really started to make it.

I could sell my own TV show, but I couldn't get it made.

I worked as bricklayer, operating forklifts, building scenes for TV shows. I did everything. When I worked at the TV, I told them I would come back one day to give interviews, and they laughed at me.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

In my business, you have so many things going at once - TV shows, projects, movies - and sometimes, things never actually come to fruition.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

If I were a star kid, I wouldn't have tried so many things. I would have done theatre and directly joined movies. I did radio and TV shows because I had to carve my own way. Outsiders like me have to reach Bollywood through modelling, theatre, or radio.

I struggled and I did theater for 10 years, for 15 years, I tried to get little parts here and there in TV shows. So, for me, the opportunity to work with Jim Carrey was amazing, it was phenomenal, it was eye-opening.

I'm keen on doing TV shows and if anything really challenging comes my way, I'm up for it.