Quotes About Perseverance

Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.

When I went to Gabriel Roth's studio, I showed him I was good with my hands and started working as a handyman in his studio. I asked him for a chance, and he gave me a song to sing with Sharon Jones.

Let me tell you something about Tunechi - about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn't have a dollar in his pocket.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

I lived in a studio apartment with my dad for many years when he was struggling.

I'm in the studio every other night. I live there. I sleep there.

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

I am always locked in my design studio.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn't dance in pictures. I cried! At one point I had polio, which I believe was a result of the stress I felt in the studios.

My father believed in moving on with time; he always said that the show must go on, come what may. That is exactly what we did when it came to RK Studios.

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.