Quotes About Patience

If you don't come from film family, it takes time for people to register you. When you don't come from film family, the connection with the audience takes time to build up; it happens eventually.

I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more.

I'm ready to wait for the best role rather than do all the projects coming my way and regret about it later.

I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.

Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets.

If we should have any regrets as Manchester United, that is that we only gave David Moyes seven months. I think we should have given him more time, accepted that results weren't going to be the way we hoped they would be and that playing would be a little bit different. I believe he would have grown into that role.

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.

I feel I should get better at my fitness regimen, but I think it's about doing it more regularly rather than expecting miracles. There are no shortcuts.

I was in two successive European finals early in my career, so initially, you think that sort of thing is going to happen regularly. Then suddenly, it dries up, and before you know it, 13 years have passed before you get your next chance.

You come up to 20 years old and you've only played three times. You see other boys who are playing regularly in the Premier League or in the Championship. And you're thinking 'I've only played three times, no starts, they've all been five minutes here and there.'

I'm one who likes to eat regularly, so not being able to eat for eight hours makes me a little cranky.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

The mental side of rehab is by far more difficult than the physical side of rehab. There's a lot of time when you are alone and a lot of time when you are contemplating, a lot of time to think. The mental side is the hardest part.

I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

People sometimes just need inspiration to keep moving along, whether it's going to Notre Dame and being rejected, or taking a long time to bring a sports movie and Hollywood together, which took a long time for 'Rudy.'

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

There are certain roles that you really want to get, but you need to learn to deal with the rejection.

I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?

There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.

I have to get out of the habit of jumping into relationships with new friends before I really get to know them.

As we all know, lasting relationships can't be rushed.

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