Quotes About Persistence

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning.

I had - like a cat with nine lives, I've had so many different careers and tried so many different things.

It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half months into it.

Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

Even I had a lull period in between when I was sitting at my home without work for a year and a half. There was a time when I did not know whether my film will be made or not. I had no clue back then, but I did not sit and complain.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

There is no doubt that the Mindset failure is a major setback for Axovant, but it is not the end of the road.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

I've failed my fair share of times no doubt.

I've seen some guys go through a career and not be able to get that elusive first major and no doubt it's a hole in any career if you don't get it done.

If it's achievable, there's no excuse why you shouldn't be doing it.

When I came to Mumbai, I had no experience in acting 'til I actually did it.

Right when I moved to L.A., I started writing. I wrote some screenplay. I'm sure it's terrible. But I wrote a screenplay by myself. When I first moved to L.A., I had no friends. I didn't know anybody. I just sat in a little studio apartment, and I wrote a screenplay.

I want to keep running. I don't ever want this journey to finish. And for that to happen, you can't put too much of your brain in doing things and can't connect too many dots because, anyway, there is no guarantee of anything.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

We had just gotten the Internet; it was so slow, but I would view the source code, copying and pasting the HTML, trying to figure out how it all worked. I had no idea, but I wanted to teach myself.