Quotes About Persistence

They say aim for the stars, but I want to aim beyond the stars.

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

I'm that person: I will literally do everything to not get out of bed, so I have alarms set for every 15 minutes.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

My dad worked all day. He would get up at five in the morning and didn't stop working until 10 at night, every day the same.

It's constant - all day long I have to eat, but it's part of the job.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

I've had it all my life - people thinking I was too small or not fast enough, not strong enough.

I've been having people doubt me all my life.

Men can do all things if they will.

I love acting. I'm definitely working on all things acting.

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

I did almost everything in my footballing career.

I need to work hard and that is alright by me.

There's no alternative to hard work.

We feel so lucky. We were amateur quizzers but now we get to do it for a living. So there's no way any of us Chasers would walk out.