Quotes About Persistence

I'm just saying, and I'm going to say it enough times: I want to play Bernie Mac.

Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.

Madrid always come back.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.

Once you have success, you have to maintain success.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

Doesn't make a difference who you're auditioning for; whatever it is, you have an audience, and you have a role, and you have the opportunity to perform that role the best you can for this audience. If you look at it like that, it doesn't make a difference if you get the part or not.

Everywhere I have been, I have always found a way to make it happen.

I wanted to be a make up artist. I did it, and the road that I took was quite good.

When you don't let in goals, you're still making mistakes but it's tough to take hard lessons from that.

When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.

If you are going to be dogged with doubts you shouldn't be making movies.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

I do theater as much as possible, but it's very difficult to manage for me.

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if I did manage to get a foothold, I didn't know what I would make.

One of the things that is most difficult for a manager is reversing bad results and keeping going.

You have to fight to get your show not only on the air but then to keep it what it is and make sure that it doesn't get manipulated into something else.

That's been kind of a mantra for me my entire career and something that I think every coach throughout most of my basketball career has told me: I've got to continue, every night, to try to stay aggressive and assert myself.