Quotes About Persistence

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record.

With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.

Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke. It was just my passion, and if I was broke doing my passion, so be it.

I will be a broken record for justice.

I look forward to putting out the new CD and doing the television performances to show everyone that B. Brown is back. In fact, I never left.

You either create something there on the street, or nothing happens. It's brutal. But if you go through that for two or three years, it really toughens you up.

This game can be brutal. As soon as you get comfortable, it bites you. You have to stay on it all the time.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

There are the movies that should never be made and resist being made until, through sheer brute force, somebody finally makes it. And then, there are the movies you can't stop from being made because they just want to be made.

If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.

Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.

I know I'm going to shoot a buffalo.

Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

Everyone is always super open to helping me even when I bug them every day for a couple of weeks!

I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

I always struggle to get Aussies on stuff if I'm just being honest. I've asked heaps of Aussies to do duets and it's always just a pain in the bum and I just don't bother any more.

I live for this. I continue to study. To bump and learn.

I've had a lot of bumps in the road, but I kept my head down and kept working.

You've got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way.

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.