Quotes About Persistence

My goal is to be the best player on the field every down and every game. If I achieve that, then I will achieve any goal I set forth.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show.

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

I just didn't lock into being in the right role in the right big movie and it going huge. I did never really make the leap to hyperspace. Who's to say that it can't still happen. I just enjoy working, and feel fortunate to be doing the things that I am doing.

I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.

If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.

I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'

My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

I kept an eye on Chelsea's fortunes after they first tried to sign me.

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

I can't decide the results, but I can still put my best foot forward and try the best I can.

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

If I get a role, it's because I fought for it.

I've fought hard to get where I am.

I knew I wanted to be an actor the first time I thought it wasn't going to be possible and decided to go another way. I was filled with this incredible sadness - and every time my life led me away from it, I fought to get back to it.

I haven't fought with crystal-clear vision my whole life.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

A lot of guys think you're almost supposed to just get stuff but you've got to put in the work, you've got to lay the foundations.

I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here, calling somebody and telling them their dream. I want to be in the seat of the founder.

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.