Quotes About Persistence

After 'Mohabbatein', I had many offers and I met many people but I am always searching for that one script which would take me that one step ahead.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

Some officers do so much to try and get at you.

It's always important to score even if it is not in an official game.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

It's a long season, and if you can go back and forth pretty well, you'll end up OK.

One must always attempt to make good films, even if you fail it is ok. It is a journey, you have both good and bad days.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year - when the masters do it, it's like, 'Okay, I guess, go for it' - but when people aren't at the top of the top level, bits don't get to cook long enough.

Not every problem is solvable, okay.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.

It doesn't matter how old you are, with determination you can make your life what you want it to be.