Quotes About Perseverance

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

My journey was not hard because I have seen stardom and the downfall very closely in my career.

This stardust won't settle, because none of us should settle.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.

I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.

You have to go to sleep at night staring at the wall, thinking, 'Damn, I can't wait for it to be morning so I can have the ball at my feet again!' You can only play your best football in these conditions.

I always knew I wanted to dance and when I was eight, I started ballet lessons at a church hall. They all wore pink ballet shoes but I wore green, as they were cheap, and I remember everyone staring at me.

As fighters, the stark reality is, there's times in that cage when we want out. There's times when we've had enough and we want out, and we're able to recognize defeat.

Visaaranai' reflects a stark reality from which you cannot shut yourself out: that is its success.

Reach for the stars.

Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

There's no night without stars.

I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.

I mean astronomically, that one doesn't even make sense. Because if you shoot for the moon, you're not going to land on the stars. The moon is closer than all of the stars.