Quotes About Persistence

I can't let distractions get in the way.

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.

I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

You have to put in an effort in everything that you do, and you cannot just sit around expecting something to happen.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

I don't take time off. If you've been out of a house for six months and then you come back in and you turn the light on, it might explode. It isn't used to be used. I keep my energy going. It's not a shock to the body when I start playing again. I don't have to 'get in shape.'

I always knew I wanted to do something in entertainment. Since I could not sing, had no rhythm, and did not want to be a baby mama, I thought I would explore the Video DJ route.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

The biggest thing is, if you want it still, you'll do everything you need to do to make sure you extend your career.

One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.

One thing I've been taught from young is that you have to work hard, turn up to extra training sessions, etc.

I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'

Actors who are not accepted are the ones who have to put in the extra effort to get somewhere in their careers. But once you achieve that, everything becomes easier.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

You want to make movies about extraordinary people, but those extraordinary people have to have a huge journey.

I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

I was extremely aggressive from the start.

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.