Quotes About Perseverance

I used to starve myself to death.

I don't care if I starve.

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself.

When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn't say it to me, but he told my mom, 'No. I'm not going to allow that. He'll starve to death.' I grew up in a small town in Illinois where being an actor was not something people did.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

I was planning on being a starving artist.

When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

I was a starving artist.

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.

I'm basically a starving artist.

Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.

Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.

When I stated playing as a kid the centre-back would pass to me and I couldn't catch it.

It was March 1974, I was in my MTech final year when I came across a notice which stated - Telco requires bright, young engineers at a salary of Rs 1,500. This was big money at that time. But that notice followed with a line that said lady students need not apply. I was agitated!