Quotes About Persistence

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.'

I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.

It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!

You want to strive to be the best you can be, and hopefully one of the best, if you can ever make it that far.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It's the same discipline you employ in dance - you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

It's hard to be perfect, but that's something we try to strive for.

The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

For some reason I have always lived my life trying to make things slightly harder for myself rather than slightly easier. I think that's why I like the Spartans. I like the idea that you get much more satisfaction if you strive for it.

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.

Every year, I strive to be the best defensive player in the league.

I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's a strive for perfection.

You'll never really reach perfection, but the strive for it, I love it.

I always strive for the best.

You should always be dedicated and know that, if you strive to do something, you can achieve it.

I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.