Quotes About Persistence

Wherever I go, I have a basketball with me. I used to dribble a basketball down the street to the movie theater, to the mall.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable.

My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That's what drives me.

Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

I think it's important to keep moving forward so that the soul can grow.

There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

All I can do is keep moving forward.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

The journey matters as much as the goal.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.

From a kid who didn't come from much success growing up but watched Muhammad Ali and Hulk Hogan, to where I am today... I tell kids, 'You can achieve anything you want as long as you stick with it.'

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.