Quotes About Persistence

I was gonna be an actor and no one was stopping me.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

You've got to dream. You've got to believe, that's what I've done all my life. I'm rolling with it at the minute. It seems like it's not stopping. Who knows where it will end?

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

The Blonde Salad never stops!

For me, the grind never stops.

If my one hand stops working, I won't stop living my life. I will start using my other hand. Similarly, if one part of my life goes wrong, I won't stop leading my life.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

How can I stop acting? I don't think there is a full stop. Maybe the only time I will stop will be when acting stops fascinating me. I will have to find something that fascinates me more.

To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying!

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.

Producing never stops. It's 24/7.

Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

I try to make sure that my disability never stops me from doing what I want to do.

When the work stops the success stops.

I just showed up at the Comedy Store. You keep showing up, and you keep showing up, and eventually, somebody notices.

On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me.

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

My story shows never say never.

As a stand-up, as a storyteller, as an improviser, I've done thousands of shows. They allow me to work out new material that might turn into something later. They let me keep my muscles sharp for when the rent-paying gigs do come along. They keep me sane.