Quotes About Persistence

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

Three surgeries on the same limb, that's a tall order.

'Greg the Bunny,' the comedy television show that I co-created, happened almost by accident. Dan Milano, Spencer Chinoy and myself made a public access show that caught the eye of IFC, and it has had three incarnations since then with a season on Fox.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.

I did so many acting jobs for nothing. I was in a play that opened on Christmas Eve above a police precinct on 54th Street. Three people showed up. One of them was an agent. It was my first agent.

You're always going to believe in yourself, and I have to thank God for that, but it's pretty hard to believe that you can make it to the big leagues and that you can possibly get 200 hits three years in a row. I feel very proud.

After my debut in 2001 in 'Aks,' where I had a small part, I had to work really hard to get work in the industry. For almost three years, I had no work.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

I might have been a jockey, you know. I started by riding horses bareback and holding on to the mane before they finally threw me off.

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

I remember the days beginning at sixteen, seventeen years old in Girls Aloud. Nobody knew us, nobody cared. We'd do university shows and people threw beers cans at us. All sorts of crazy things! We had to work really hard to get where we did.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

When you have the thrill and the pleasure to do something that means so much, you'll do whatever you've gotta do to get to that next gig and play that next song.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

I have knocked at almost every door, from government offices to private companies, pleading for money and facilities to start my athletics school. It has been a tough mission. But I am thrilled that it is now a reality.