Quotes About Persistence

This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.

When I decide something, I have to do something to make it happen.

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

No matter what happens, one should not stop dreaming... dreams do come true.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

I like to work long-term on projects. It's fun to go in and out and get in there and do something and leave it behind, but to me, the real satisfaction is doing five years on a show, where you're really just up to your eyes in it. It's part of your life. That's what makes me the happiest.

I believe your career is one of the few things that stay with you forever. It also gives you the confidence to lead a happy life.

With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When things get hard you've got to run with it, and when things get good you run with it.

As an actor, you want to work every day of your life. You have to work hard, look and think positive, and the work just starts coming your way.

It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.

I'm someone who has come through situations where I saw hard things.

You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

I can give anyone a hard time.

Basically, I had a hard time getting anyone to want to make any of the features that I had written.

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.

As a player I had some good times but people forget I had a lot of hard times to get there; seven years in the lower divisions.

When I was younger, me and my dad worked really hard. We did it the hard way.