Quotes About Persistence

I was in the business for almost a quarter of a century, and I'm very proud of my career.

Just understand that I'm trying to get to the quarterback by any means necessary. And if I have to throw somebody out of the way to do it, it is what it is.

Ultimately, I've just got to keep playing football and try to do it the best I can and try to continue to be a high-level quarterback, and if I do that, trust that in the long run things will work out.

Everyone knows quarterback is a position where it takes a while to really start playing well.

That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.

I want to be a great quarterback, one of those guys you talk about for years to come. That's not going to happen overnight.

I mean, I just try to run hard all four quarters.

I want to be able to press a person all four quarters of a game until he just can't take it anymore.

I think whether home or away, it's playing a full four quarters, doing good things on offense all the way through the game rather than just in spurts.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.

My lowest point came when I shifted to Mumbai in 1993. Nothing was happening. This is right after I did 'Bandit Queen.' I had no way to tell people that I know my job. There was no casting department here. All the commercial films that were happening in those days did not have any place for me.

My first year at Queen's Park, I just wasn't good enough, but that tough period shaped me.

Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail.

I'm just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.

I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'

Zahoui is a guy who's in quest of results, however it comes.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

I think we can say our business plan worked even if a lot of people questioned if it could work beforehand and said we would be just like one of the other ones who came in in the last years.

I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.