Quotes About Persistence

If you accept failure, then you can improve on it. It's funny though, because, on the flip side of the coin, I'd say that if you don't accept failure, there is no failure.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

For me, whenever I get on the floor, I'm gonna try to impact the game and just do what I do.

I don't look for roles, for they come to me. Mind you, it's not like I'm sitting in the middle of the floor with thousands of scripts around me. When work comes up, it's good. I love it. Work doesn't feel like work.

Everyone knows I get off the floor, and I fight until the finish.

I try to leave everything on the floor every single game.

I would just go out and play every game and leave it all out on the floor, and I guess I had the talent to get into a great college like UCLA.

At the end of the day, if I can keep playing defense, I'm going to be able to stay on the floor, and obviously that's what everyone wants to do.

I'm gonna run the floor. I'll do the best I can.

If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

Nobody ever sets out to make a flop, but it's going to happen. You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and say: 'Right, we go again.'

I was even treated as a 'flop,' a contract that doesn't pay. But I kept working my best.

Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.

I am probably the best example of an actor who has built his career on flops.

My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was so fascinated with film, I couldn't stay away.

Nothing's by fluke and nothing's been given to me.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I'm gonna prove that I can stay in the game and have some longevity.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

I don't think I would ever have taken on professional acting roles if I hadn't had the ability to fly. I had quite low self-esteem, and it gave me the self-confidence to believe I could do anything that I put my mind to.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.