Quotes About Persistence

I sometimes tell a director that I want to work with him. I tell him twice. After that if he still doesn't give me a call, I move on.

When things go wrong, I like to keep on working and move on.

It's always been the ones that got away that stick in your memory. You use them for motivation. The ones you win are brilliant and you enjoy them, and then you move on.

You can't let one game define you. You just have to move on.

If it works, good, if it doesn't, then move on, I will try something else. This is my style of humor and with time, I've understood that people like it and it is working.

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. When I moved to L.A., that was my dream, because I never really grew up watching comedies, although of course I loved 'Dumb & Dumber.'

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Movements live on a day-to-day basis.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the end result does not match the expectations. '10 Enradhukulla' is still a movie very close to my heart.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

Once, I wanted to be a movie star. I just had to wait until I turned into an actor and then things started to work out.