Quotes About Persistence

Hard work most often leads to success, but it's not every day, and it's not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career.

You have to stay open, and things may come at different times, but I have to dream big, and that's what I'm going to be doing.

I played Zidane throughout my career, and for many players you reach a point where you learn lessons on how to handle them. But from the first match I played against him to the last, Zidane would find different ways to beat me.

Even small challenges are big challenges for me. I take all challenges seriously. I do not differentiate between big and small challenges.

It's hard to be at your best and to know exactly what is your best at all times because even when you do see yourself, you think you could be better, and you often feel that there is something you could have done differently.

If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere.

I can say I've had a difficult time. I've literally been told, 'Oh, no one is interested in seeing you. No one wants to see somebody that looks like you on TV.'

I'm a go-getter. It's in my DNA. If I spend a lot of time lamenting on the difficulties, then it could be distracting.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

There are filmmakers who get lucky with the first film itself, and then there are some of us who have to face difficulties.

I think, in football, you have to go through difficulties.

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.

I think you have to dig deep in every performance.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

I work for every film with the same amount of diligence.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

I directed my first movie, not one piece of press!