Quotes About Persistence

Honestly, for me only playing 14 minutes my rookie year and breaking my leg. To be able to play all 82, that was really cool for me... That was, for me, a huge accomplishment. Something I'm really proud of for sure.

Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.

A lot of tough stuff, tough breaks happen, but that's just the NBA. That's just the way it is.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

There's so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.

Well, I'm still breathing.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time because you know what you're doing. With writing a novel, you have to figure it out each time. Each time you start over, you just have the language and the idea and the hope.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

There's not always bright lights. Sometimes you have to go through dark tunnels to be able to get to the success.

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

It is very difficult to 'make it' as a top broadcaster or YouTuber.

I'm the kind of guy who has to be two feet in if I am going to give my best effort, so broadcasting is something I'm looking at long-term.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

I spent 15 years of not being able to get a job creating a role on Broadway.

I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That's actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.

If I were to talk to my younger self, I would say, 'Girl, you're gonna be on Broadway one day.' I sometimes think about my younger self knowing that and how ridiculously she's sobbing somewhere, so I would love to tell her that it's all going to happen.

I always wanted to work on Broadway. That's something I always wanted to do.

For a lot of people, I was a below-average guy who broke through a wall.