Quotes About Perseverance

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

It doesn't matter how old you are, with determination you can make your life what you want it to be.

I don't believe in giving in to old age.

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

It's going to hurt if I fall. I don't want to deal with that, I want to prove that it can be done for a long life, until I'm an old man.

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

Retirement for old people, forget about it.

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

I'm old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.

The old school in me knows how to get over and get other guys over. I'm going to continue to do it.

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.

I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

My older brother was always in the gym, and I saw how hard he worked. Around middle school, I was in there with him, and I started to love it. But it wasn't like I had a basketball in my hand at age 2.

I work hard all my life and now I show the people how I come from oldest country in the world to live the America dream.