Quotes About Perseverance

It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.

I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.

I never thought that a time would come that someone will write a story keeping me in mind, or a producer will invest crores of rupees on a film that I will carry on my shoulders.

It takes a lot of drive to succeed as an independent producer.

For every film that I have believed in - from 'Tanu Weds Manu' to 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' - it was very difficult to find producers.

I didn't knock on any producers' doors for work.

When I was very young, around 11 or 12, when I started actually meeting people, trying to get work, I had to meet producers, directors but I didn't have the platform.

At 21, right out of college, I had two producers, about my age, who had never produced a show before, and they wanted me to write and produce an hour-long show before I turned 22. Which is a whole lot of work for someone who's just an 'airhead.'

I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.

When I broke up with Eric B., I went on a little hiatus. Then all I was trying do is find producers. It's real hard, man.

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.

I owe much of my success to Seann Walsh. He kept recommending me for Live At The Apollo until eventually the producers offered me a gig.

For me, I always had producers come to me with films, even if it was not like the Khans, but whatever I have got I have tried to give my best to it.

All it took was one good role to convince producers all over again that I could act.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities white actors do. I know that's inherently a problem in a country that produces a lot of period drama, but I have to fight so hard to get parts that don't have something to do with China.

The 'Okay-I'll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don't-think-it-will-work' attitude produces failures.

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.