Quotes About Persistence

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

I want longevity in this career.

My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.

I hit the beauty jackpot, I get it, but that's not enough: you've got to have more to have longevity in this business. It's always been, 'OK, so what can I do now?'

I wasn't about one season, but career and longevity.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

But looking back, whenever I'd perform or anything I always gave it my all, no matter what. Even if I didn't know what exactly music could lead to for me, I always believed in myself and had faith in my abilities.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

It's a tough journey as an actor in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is where I became an actor.

If you aren't a loser, you fight; you continue to fight, believe.

Personally, I'd like to become a person who never loses her passion and always has a dream to follow.

If you want to be ahead of a team that never loses, that's not easy.

You don't think the losing is ever going to end, but when it does end, you get to enjoy it and keep working with it and keep getting it better, and that's where we are.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

If I won the lottery, 89 million, I would still want to fight, so it's nothing to do with money.

I think I had a lot of people who were like, 'Payal, we love you, but product's not there,' or 'business is not there.' I never gave up, though.

A lot of people forget that I played for seven years in the lower divisions; it wasn't always 'this glittering career.' I had to wait a long time and even in the early days at Man U, for three years we didn't win anything.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I just need to stay loyal to God and anything can happen.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

By the end of my BA, I was still not good in English, but I went on to enroll for an MA in History.