Quotes About Persistence

It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die.

Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.

Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.

We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I know only one way: work hard.

There's only one way to get strong. You work at it.

Many people from the industry come up to me and say 'We don't see you onscreen much.' But where are the scripts? Do you think I am not sitting in my office and waiting for something like 'Matru' to happen to me? I would love to do four such films in a year.

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

I don't work with a lot of pressure, you know? I don't think, 'Oh, this one has gotta work or I'm finished.' I just kind of get onto the next one.

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.

When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.

I hoped 'Starlet' would finally open doors for me and lead to a much bigger budgeted movie, but that didn't happen.

Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.