Quotes About Perseverance

It took me a long time to get my life screwed up, and it's going to take a long time to get it back.

When you take over a screwed-up situation, you need time.

Luckily for me, I get a lot of acting-oriented scripts.

Scripts don't get movies made.

Good scripts are hard to find.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

Good scripts, which are apt for me, eventually come to me.

I'm one that doesn't let the pressure or any of the outside kind of scrutiny, all those things, really get to me.

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time.

I was only 26 when I started my career. Those days I only wanted to work. When my films did not work, I didn't know what to do. But I never went to anyone for work. Work came in search of me.

I did not play my first full season until I was 21.

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.

I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.

These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining.

I played 18 seasons. That's a lot. There is some that played more. Brett Favre I think played a couple more. There is a few. There is a few guys that played more, but not many.