Quotes About Persistence

In life you cannot expect things to fall into your lap, you have got to work hard.

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

I had no idea I would be able to have a career in drag that's lasted this long, at the level that I get to do it at.

I had a good career. I lasted 22 years.

I had been on four other series that never lasted more than a year and a half. I'd done fine, so you start to wonder, 'Will I ever be one of those lucky actors who get to be part of something lasting?'

Anytime you're lucky enough to be on something that lasts longer than half a season, you never quite know what kind of life the show is gonna take on.

There is always going to be a point where your form becomes patchy and it's down to how long it lasts really.

You have to laugh at yourself because if you can't, you may as well give up!

For the last three years that I have tried, people are laughing at me and saying that I was trying too hard. And my answer is yeah, I really am trying hard.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

You can't sit back, rest on laurels and think about the past - what the journey has been.

I feel great when people like my work, but after a day or two, I don't keep that in my head. I go back to working and training. I don't rest on my laurels.

I was the girl who kind of went straight from high school to college. Then straight from college to law school.

I worked my way through law school.

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

Where music leads, I follow.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he's ever been before? It's hard. To come from all this huge success like a 'What's Love,' and a 'Lean Back,' then take it back to the street with 'The Darkside.'

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?