Quotes About Persistence

I've always been someone who has wanted to fight and to scrap for every penny I could.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

I believe I never finished playing Sherry Palmer, that's why when the thought they shot and killed me, Penny's butt kept breathing on the floor, because I believe that she never died. I just feel like that's a character that I would want to play to feel a completion, because I never really completed playing her.

I am the same person who came to this city Mumbai a few years ago to act in Hindi films, and I am just continuing doing that. I did not change as a person. All that happens is people change around me.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.

If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

I've decided that whether I succeed or fail, I have to give it 100 per cent. That way, at least I know I tried.

Nobody's feeling, after 10 days of playing every day, 100 per cent ready or fit.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

The way I look at it is, if you're going to play, you better put 100 percent effort into it all the time.

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Don't matter what I do, what I say, how much I try to change. You don't change perception.

There was a lot of struggle. People have different perceptions about you and sometimes looks also can limit you as an actor.

Everything else is irrelevant after the bliss of giving a perfect shot.

I want to be perfect at everything, knowing I'll never be perfect at it, but that's my goal.

There's never a perfect play for me.