Quotes About Persistence

There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

If someone hit you in the face 7 times, you're not just going to smile on the eighth.

I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

I don't need an Emmy to tell me to go to work. I've been working.

I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

Ambition never comes to an end.

People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I'm going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.

At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.

Honestly, I just keep my nose to the grindstone and keep working. At the end of the day, that's usually one of those things that's going to get you ahead.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

I will always endeavour to bring out the best films.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

I never like to think of anything from an ending point.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

I want to work on my endurance.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.