Quotes About Persistence

I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

I really have the American dream licked.

The American dream will never be lost.

To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.

When I see a film, I'll remember that there was a time when it wasn't working, and there was some pain and angst in order to get it to work.

If someone says I can't do something, I always think I'm going to totally do this to annoy you.

I am a student of this business. I'm really interested in it. When I was younger, I was always the annoying one. What's that? What's that do? What is that called? Why aren't you doing this? I think it got very annoying.

There is always going to be another game and another day.

Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't hear the word 'no' - I hear 'find another way to get what you want.'

Don't take 'no' for an answer.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.

My films have been successful, and therefore, the process has accommodated me. When the studio said 'no,' I did it anyhow. Now they don't say no to me.

I will play until I can't play anymore.

My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

I only did the comedy thing because I just thought I could do it better than anyone else at the time. And I was right.

I love trying to be the best at anything and everything.

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

Since I'm not good at anything else, I hope I can keep singing for a long time.