Quotes About Persistence

When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.

And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.

If I ran into myself maybe seven years ago and told myself that I was gonna be an actor, that I'd be in L.A. working at Universal Studios with these amazing people, I'd be like, 'Get out of here. There's no possible way.'

I made my own contacts and I recorded in different studios, and it was something that I did by myself without the assistance and help with my family at first.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Before you start a practicing regimen, you have to be aware that the study of music is a lifelong process-it's a discipline. And the key to mastering any discipline is consistency.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

I was making music simultaneously while studying B. Sc. and M. Sc.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.