Quotes About Persistence

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river.

It [the film industry] is not a glamorous industry. It's really, really hard, and you get told all the time, "You're not this, you're not that," and so you have to find a center.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

I think every time a movie gets made, it's a miracle. I would love to get to a point where it became easier and it wasn't so much of a struggle to get it done or finished.

I truly love being an actor. I love it with all my heart and soul, and I hope that I get to do it for a very long time.

This is the time to be super aggressive

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.