Quotes About Persistence

I went goodness knows how long without a bath.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

If you want to be an actor, you have to be serious about it. You can't be goofing around.

We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

You've got to have a commitment to your craft.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

First off, you always gotta get your work done.

I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.

When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

I learned that you can accomplish so much, no matter what the limitations may be. You just gotta believe to achieve.

When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.'

I've never gotten into anything that I didn't feel I'd be successful doing.

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.

Anyone can go all out when they can grab some glory, but the best give maximum effort at every opportunity in everything they do.