Quotes About Perseverance

Life in Bollywood was not easy. It took me many years to establish myself, it was a struggle.

I have not tried enough to be in Bollywood.

I don't have anybody in my life who's connected to the industry. I don't have a producer dad. I don't have friends in Bollywood. I really don't know how to go about it.

I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

When bombing is going on, you see a lot of people screaming around you and you can't do anything if you're small. You just want to break out of that and be strong.

I'm not really Bond girl material, and that's fine by me. I'm a grafter; I'm not a star.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

I tore ligaments in my shoulder completely off the bone.

I was 35 when I started writing Shadow and Bone,' and my only goal was to finish a book because I had never managed to do it.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

I love it when, after a day of shooting, I'm so exhausted that my bones hurt.

I never got a lead role and I make no bones about it.

No players want to hear their own fans booing the players, booing the team, but football is a hard game, and you can't win everything.

I'm going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.' I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to move to L.A. and become famous. 'Squeakwell' is going to launch me to that point.' Well, I didn't end up working for, like, three years afterward. That's kind of the name of the game.

I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.

When K. Balachander saw me for the first time, he booked me for three films and asked me to learn Tamil first.

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don't need them.

I have had a lot of boos in my short career, that is obviously from away fans or home fans!

I don't really care, if somebody boos me or boos the team, we're trying to win the game.

It definitely gives you a boost away from home and being down and coming back.

Winning Le Mans didn't change my career, but it definitely gave me a boost.

I always believe in trying something extra-ordinary and fighting against myself, gives me the biggest confidence boost.