Quotes About Perseverance

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined.

Artists come and go, and that's my fear... that's what keeps me focused.

I've paid a lot of dues, learned a lot, seen people come and go, what to do and what not to do.

You can never have the comeback if you don't have the retirement.

I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.

No sport is easy, if you spend time away it will be difficult to make a comeback.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

In show business, everyone loves a comeback story.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

When I was making a comeback we were talking to Roy Jones but he wasn't having any of it.

People say, 'When are you making this comeback?' I say, 'It's not a comeback, it's a record.' They say, 'Where have you been all these years?' I say, 'I've been making records.'

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

It took me seven years to even comfortably say that I'm an actor.

I'm fighting because I want to be the best and I want to beat the best and I want to make a name for myself. I'm not fighting because I want to live comfortably for the rest of my life.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

I never wanted to be road comic.

The comic book world is a tough business.

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.