Quotes About Persistence

My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

I'll cop to this: so much of doing a 22-episode show is just keeping your head above water.

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.

I'd always do bits on street corners like Richard Pryor's Mudbone character. And my friends kept telling me, You could make money doing that.'

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I started playing basketball when I was 6 or 7. I wasn't strong enough to shoot the correct way, so I just used two hands. As I got older, I just kept shooting that way.

If you love your job and you love what you do, you'll just continue to go out there and work, and try to make whatever corrections you can.

You don't succeed on corruption in five minutes. I wish one could.

I always want to win at all costs.

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

My form's good in practice, but that doesn't count for anything, really.

You can't count me out.

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

I've been counted out a lot of times, but always find a way to win.

I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.

My admonition is, 'No counterterrorism lead goes uncovered.'

I spend countless hours each and every day after practice doing form shooting. You know, coming in on off days to shoot.