Quotes About Persistence

I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

Obviously, sometimes in the summer, when you're by yourself in the gym, you lift, you run... it gets hard sometimes. It gets hard sometimes; I'm not going to lie.

Nothing lights a fire under you like somebody saying, 'You're not going to be able to do it.'

I will be the UFC lightweight champion. Mark my words.

I knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'

I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.

I like to push myself to the limit of my abilities.

I never put a time limit on my dream.

As in life, to be the best in basketball you can't put any limits on your existence.

I feel nobody has limits. It's all in your head. If you have a big dream, go after it and go get it.

It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

I never listened to people who said I wasn't going to make it.

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

I can't do nothing just a little.

I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.

I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.

I'm going to go out and attack it and get better every day. That's the same approach I've had since I was just a little kid.

I still feel inside like a little kid from Spokane with a dream.

Every little thing I've done so far has been a dream of mine, and I've been able to accomplish it. It's still a dream every day.