Quotes About Persistence

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

You just have to keep coming to work in order to be the best.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

I feel every project that I have done in my life, which is acting oriented, has been something that I believed in.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

The original idea for Justin.tv was a terrible idea. So if something like that can eventually become successful, then anyone can be successful.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

The film you know as 'Super Troopers' is a film that almost didn't happen. The script was originally commissioned and developed by Miramax, but when it failed to get a green light, Harvey Weinstein was kind enough to give it back to us so we could make it elsewhere.

The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.

You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.

You can win your Oscar, and you still wake up trying to figure out how to get your next job.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

Not having a mum was my thing. It came with a sort of fame. Other kids couldn't get their head around that. But looking back now, I'm quite proud about how I managed myself. I didn't end up sniffing glue or running away. I just got on with things.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?