Quotes About Persistence

We've all been there, where it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, and you can't seem to do anything right. But you still have to say to yourself, 'You know what? That's not going to stop me. I still have to find a way.'

When I played, the offensive line was at the stadium 4 hours before kickoff. Most of the other guys got there about 3 hours before.

I adopted this idea whether I was going to end up making music for three people in a bar or Wembley Stadium, I was always going to do music.

I've worked very hard to put myself where I am: in the top 10, the top American in an American event - two American events - and I haven't played on stadium court.

When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films.

I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire.

I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

During the early stages of Zoom, I personally emailed every customer who canceled our service.

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

Shows than run for years together make you stagnant.

I'm not sure about doing 10 takes of running up a flight of stairs, whether I'm really up to that... but I'll definitely have a go!

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

God didn't design an elevator for me. It's great because I'm climbing stairs and learning with every step.

Obviously understand what's at stake, and keep going. You just have to keep going, keep playing.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

No doubt about it, in order to win the WSOP Main Event, plenty of stamina is required.

I have good stamina and good endurance.