Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes films don't turn out the way they were envisioned on paper. And when that happens, one must just forget the entire episode.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

If you just stay with it and take it scene by scene, episode by episode, all of the questions that I have, as an actor, tend to answer themselves.

I loved my time on 'The Mindy Project' so much. It was only supposed to be half a year. It was really only supposed to be one episode, and then it became three episodes, and then it became half a year, and then it became a year and a half, and then it became two years.

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

Some dogs are escape artists.

I had to work on my own to establish myself.

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.

I don't ever want to be an established actor as I don't want this struggle to end.

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

I would work out seven hours a day - 3.5 hours in the morning and 3.5 in the evening.

I can always get better at what I'm doing because I'm not nearly as good as I think I can be. I'm going to try to improve every chance I get.

I know they don't come very often in this business, so every chance I get to step out on the field, wherever it was, I worked as hard as I could.

I worked every night, and I'd go 25, 35, 45 minutes, and that is what made me, and that is that I knew how to work, and I knew how to work the people.

You've just got to bring it every night. And that's what makes the great players great.

I think I bring it every night.

I just try to compete every night.

I just try to bring it every night in whatever way I can.

I believe I am one of the best and I work to prove that every night I go out there.

You have to be a real live dog to come out there and compete every night.

I am the kind of person who will give his best every single time. I cannot underperform unless I'm playing with kids. Actually, I'd probably still get angry if they try to hit me!

I just want to do the best I can every time.