Quotes About Persistence

'Rocky' I tend to watch through to the end every time.

I have watched 'Rocky' many times.

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

Nothing is easy and if you don't get a role, maybe you weren't good enough to play it.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

Don't overthink things. Make the next record, and keep rolling with it.

Some games you're going to be able to get rolling, you're going to get in a good rhythm, you're going to be able to get open looks. Other games, sometimes the rhythm's not there and you've got to get off it a little bit.

You try to find the romance in the struggle, or at least that's what you keep telling yourself. But you talk to successful actors, and the struggle always is what they miss the most.

I auditioned several times before I got the part in 'Shuddh Desi Romance.'

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

I want to be a director - and you need to get out there and do it, you can't wait 'til it comes to you... I'd give anything to be able to do what Ron Howard's done.

We had some rough times in TNA. We had some pay issues, and this and that, they were some other issues. But at that time, we were working harder than we ever worked. Even though, you know, we were being paid late and all, we worked harder than we worked before.

I had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.

When I first started out, I absolutely begged my agent to get me a Poirot audition, and my wish came true - I did a Poirot! I need to do a Marple to round it off.

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

Any team can't give top performance all year round.

For 12 years, I was playing writer's rounds.

I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.

I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!

I think the majority of people will always take the easy route first.

You can't sign up for this kind of wrestling in school, so I went the football route first and I was successful at it.