Quotes About Perseverance

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether live or pickup, coach in the gym or not.

You can't really be picky and choosy for your first lead role.

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

I'm not too picky. I'm not waiting, sitting around for the ideal and perfect role. I like to work, so I try to make the best of whatever opportunity comes up.

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.