Quotes About Persistence

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.

I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

I'll never stop acting, but music is another passion of mine. I just love creating projects in the entertainment field and performing onstage or in front of a camera.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

If you really want something, you just have to promise yourself that you won't stop until it happens.

Nothing's promised. You got to go out there and earn it.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

All of us are hungry to be a part of great stories. There are some fortunate ones who get it early in their career, and there are some, for whom it takes a little while to get to be even considered for a part which could be promising.

For me it doesn't matter if my song is promoted, or if it comes at the end credits of a film, it's my baby at the end of the day.

Every team that's promoted to the Premier League wants to stay, they don't want to go back.

Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

You can't tell me that dreams don't come true. My life is proof that they do.