Quotes About Persistence

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'

I am enduring. You can disagree with me.

I'm not going to disappear.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

I'm not gonna just disappear after one album.

I've seen new actresses do one show and disappear or struggle for years to get their next break. I've been fortunate enough to have four shows back-to-back as lead.

People tend to disappear from showbiz because they cant wait between two projects, which often takes a lot of time.

I think, in Australia, it's kind of a crazy thing to say, 'I want to be an actor.' People look at you weirdly. And when I said I was moving to L.A., I remember people saying, 'No, you shouldn't. You'll just come back disappointed.'

I am never disappointed in life in not getting any awards: it is the movies which keep me going, not the awards.

I am disappointed when I lose and don't play well, for example. But it is not so disappointing to lose when you play good. And I never feel I want to put the racquet down and walk away because of losing.

All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.

When you get disappointments, you bounce back.

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.

My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.