Quotes About Perseverance

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

It's crazy because it's a British record and a personal best, but I wanted that 2 m. I cleared the 1.97 m. first attempt with space, so I think I could have done a little better.

I had 14 failed attempts at having kids.

I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.

I've given everything I've got as attorney general.

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

I work really hard and I try to use my attributes as best I can.

The more you do, the more attrition you experience.

I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die.

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

I audition for a lot and don't get a lot.

My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.

There've been times where, like when I auditioned for 'Akeelah,' I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, 'Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I'm just a newcomer,' and this and that.

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

I never get a role if I audition for it.

I don't think I'll ever get to a place where I'm super kumbaya coming into an audition room.

I got 'Aurangzeb' because I gave an audition and passed it.

I usually don't get the movies I audition for.

I'm auditioning for anything that's good that comes my way.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

Auditioning is the worst.

I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

I sometimes self-edit when it comes to auditions and go, 'They're not going to cast me, so I'm not going to do it.'

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.