Quotes About Persistence

No matter how dope you are, if you ain't really built, if you ain't put that groundwork in, you gonna flop. Nobody gonna fill those arenas.

With acting, you have to put in the groundwork, then maybe you'll get lucky. It's a slog but it's also fun.

I think we need to keep our faces out there and to keep our game out there and keep it growing.

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

When you're super passionate about something, you're more willing to do all of the grunt work. You know, like, I'm so willing to live on a bus for my whole life because that means I get that one moment on stage or that one moment in the studio that totally fills me.

The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

You have to give your best as you can't guarantee the success of your film, but you can always give a good performance.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

I haven't been in a million things. And most of them have been really small, or guest parts.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

I wanted to be a guitar player.

My first musical dream was to be a guitar player, and believe me, it's still in there.

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player or male guitar player, it's not an easy road at all.

I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.

My gut told me 'Kanaa' was worth taking up, and it's a dream role for any actor.

Coach education in Germany is actually very good, but I do not understand why many coaches do not have the guts to push through an idea when they have lost two or three times.