Quotes About Persistence

When you have a dream in mind and you want it so bad and you fail, it crushes you.

I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.

I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.

I've been written off. But I don't go about crying. Nothing is going to stop me. Not Chisora. We're marching on.

My career has been as clear as a crystal.

Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but that's not going to achieve anything.

We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.

I really enjoy what I do. And if you want a lasting career, you have to work at it. Keep it current. Keep it fresh.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

I wouldn't want to do anything like 'Minecraft' again, where it's, like, an on-going thing, and there are customers I have to keep happy.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

I do not plan to go on cycling until I am completely tired and finished.

I'm a bit rubbish at everything apart from cycling.

I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do.

You will get cynicism, and the only way to break through is keep showing people and take actions.

I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going to go out there and beg anyone for a job.

People have said I have brain damage, but I've passed all of my physicals, all of my medicals. They've checked my head so many times it's crazy.

I want the undisputed career. I want the best damn career. I want to be the best guy ever to do this.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.