Quotes About Persistence

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

You try things creatively all the time, and while you want every one of them to be great, and you set out to do that, that's not always going to end up being the case.

I fail most of the time. As a creator, and as CEO of Patreon, things can't go well all of the time.

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

If there is ever a crew that goes out every night behind the eight-ball and have their work cut out for them to be respectable, it's the '205 Live' guys.

I am a cricket lover and wanted to be a cricketer.

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

If people criticise, you have to keep working.

I've accepted loads of criticism and sacrificed so much money to do what I wanted to do - which, in a very small way, contributed to making things easy for my kind of actors.

If I am going to be afraid of the criticisms that my films get, I am never going to make films.

I know there are going to be people who criticize what I do no matter what, but I'm just trying to not get caught up in it.

I'm going to get criticized my whole career.

I hear all the critics, man. I hear them saying 'He's done.' I hear them saying 'He can't.' I hear all that. That keeps me going.

I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven't done anything. I never really bothered much and I don't care.

There are a million logical reasons to not make a film, and I think if you get focused on all the critics or money or any of that other stuff, it never leads anywhere good.

I'm not worried about what the critics say, or how they feel I should go with my career.

I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's Lane, and I would go out each day and do the agents - walk into these buildings, along their corridors, bang on these doors and say, 'Anything today?'

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

Sometimes in stand-up, you want that late-night set where you get that five minutes, then you want a half-hour special, and then the crown, if you will, is an HBO special.

The crucial thing for me is that I stick to my job.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.