Quotes About Persistence

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

I used to like studying a lot.

I think the reason why I'm an actress is because I got hooked on the feeling of studying for an audition, going to the audition, and then getting that phone call.

I was studying in Pune when I was asked to audition for 'Navya' through a social networking site. Once I landed the show, there's been no looking back.

Doing research isn't simply about studying hard.

When you're in form you're happy and want to go out there and play everyday. It's like that with studying. Once you learn something and develop your thinking, you want to study more.

I really work at a part to do it to the best of my ability. And I'm studying acting as well as keeping up with my singing and dancing lessons.

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

I don't stumble at any hurdle.

I feel like I have been putting out a consistent body of work, just waiting for that agent, that executive, that assistant to the bigwig to stumble across it.

Sometimes you stumble when you push yourself harder and you're trying to run faster or whatever. We forgive ourselves, pick ourselves up, and keep running. We don't cry and stop running because we skinned our knee.

You never want to have a stumble, but it happens sometimes. It happens, and you get through things.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Banging my feet against the snow to get a grip on the ice, I damaged my artificial leg stump. On several occasions my artificial leg turned 180 degrees and I had to put it back to its normal position which slowed me down. I had to crawl along the slope to move forward, annoying the climbers behind me.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.