Quotes About Persistence

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.

I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

If there's anything I'm proud of in my career, it's that I've been able to hang in there and keep progressing over the years.

In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

That's how people get better. Keep progressing, keep competing, and good things will happen.

I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

Champions league progression takes years.

I get beat up on every project.

I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.