Quotes About Persistence

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

I don't know anyone who's started more consecutive Daytona 500s than me.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

My life isn't going to stop because my father's dead and my trolls won't stop and people won't stop writing about me.

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

I love a daily deadline.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Cockroaches can't survive me, and neither can Dean Ambrose.

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I've been blogging since the 80s. Okay maybe not that long. But starting around 2004, I launched and abandoned many blogs, and would continue to do so over the next decade.

To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.

Two decades in athletics is a long time in sports.

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

I have had a decent career.

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.