Quotes About Perseverance

I started my career without fans.

My journey with Krishna Vamsi had started with revenge and ended with love. When I went to Krishna Vamsi's office to work as an assistant director, I was sent out. Then I had thought they might one day need me.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

Let's go, champ' started as a way to motivate myself.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

Finishing what you started is important.

I was shy at dancing. I practice at home. I was practicing in the mirror. Dancing everywhere. Then I just started feeling good. I started feeling coordinated. I started feeling the music better.

For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

To look back where I started from, you can't help but be amazed.

I sat down once with the application for Match.com and started to laugh. I couldn't even get past the first page. And that's a very good site!

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

Everybody would like to be starter, but if I'm not, it's no big deal for me.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

If I'm going to be a sixth man, I'm going to go for Sixth Man of the Year. If I'm a starter, I'm definitely trying to be a great player either way.

I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.