Quotes About Persistence

Dreams do come true. But it will involve a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, a lot of studying.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

I don't do well when I don't work.

I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.