Quotes About Persistence

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

Any club has more than enough comics, so if you're not there every night talking to the booker, you're not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.

I'm going to play as long as I can because I love coming to the rink.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

If I saw negative comments I tried to look past them.

I get really tired of all the comments saying I should change my approach.

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

Before my big break in 'MADtv,' I was doing a lot of commercial work.

I have been fortunate that my commercials became famous and the best directors have managed to work on my terms. I didn't have to chase anyone.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.

I believe you bet on yourself and you commit to something and you give all your energy and effort to it, and that's what I've done my whole life.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long time to commit to being a writer. Up until then, I had worked one dead-end job after another while writing on the side.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to fully commit to something.

I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.

When I do things, I just fully commit to it.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.