Quotes About Persistence

I try my best to just ignore the negativity. Which is hard for me because it's a lot to deal with.

I think no matter what or no matter who you are you're always going to get some type of negativity, whatever that may be.

My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours.

I'm probably one of the most competitive people you'll ever meet. I want to dunk on my nephews. I'll block my 2-year-old's shot to make it hard on them.

I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other thought. This is the way to success.

For me, if I attack two or three times but didn't get the point, then I would get nervous.

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.

'Cuckoo's Nest' was my first film, and I had wanted to do film for some time, but somehow I had not clicked. I would go in for interviews or readings, and I never had the sense that I was anywhere near what they were looking for.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

I've literally pitched to every studio and network trying to get directing work. It's really hard.

I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Always the journey, never the destination.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

The battle of getting better is never ending.

I never expect business to be easy.

You can never expect things to happen like they did the last time. You still have to put in the work.

We will never forget and we will not relent until our job is done.

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

Wherever your musical interest takes you, whether it's just in your garage or in your shower, never forget why you started. Keep that first and foremost in your mind.