Quotes About Persistence

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.

It's good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I am putting out there on the stage.

When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.

Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.

I've made a career making stuff that nobody sees, so anything that I can do to help make something that people are going to enjoy and want to see over and over again, then I'm there.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'