Quotes About Perseverance

After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.

I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Whenever I get no callbacks from the casting people, I will try for the next one.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

I have always been 100% regimental and I haven't done what I should do and sometimes you can be a casualty of your own success.

It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.

Can't ever catch enough balls.

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

I think when you lose the fight, it's not the end of the world. You can keep training and catch up and try again better, you know?

I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.

Like, I played baseball with all boys. They didn't want to play catch with me. I mean, it's the story of everything I've done.

All I've done is work hard to get better and better every single year to become the best catcher I can be.

The catching position is hard. You have to find a way to do a lot of things, to be in the game. When you get older, when you're 38 years old, you have to find a way to be on the field.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.