Quotes About Persistence

I've been in situations in my career where I've had slumps and struggles. I always stick with it and just keep working.

I have not come this far in one shot, and I have undergone struggles. My life was built step by step.

No matter who you are and where you are' struggles will always be a part of the journey.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.

Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

My parents were struggling actors who had a hard time getting work. That's why I hesitated about getting into acting, I had seen them going through that.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Sometimes the game does not go for you, no matter how much you try, but I do what I can and leave other people to their opinions on how I played.

We always try the knockout, but it's hard to get it if the opponent always runs away.

People who are great at what they do, they do it the same way no matter who the opponent is.

We must not dive into tackles but force the opponent to run so that maybe they will crack late in the game.

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.