Quotes About Patience

There are so many happy memories that will be made. You just have to live long enough to get to them.

You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

When I couldn't play at West Ham, I kept my mentality, and I went to train every day to be a better player.

I think any time you put in a lot of work and you're trying to believe in a process, be dedicated to that one-percent-better mentality, you need to understand you may not see the fruit to your labor tomorrow or the next day or the next week.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.

Obviously, it was tough for me, coming from high school and being that guy who was always playing and then having to sit and wait my turn... Mentally, it was taxing.

If you're injured, it's always mentally hard.

If I'd got to the top too early, I would not have been a success. I was physically and mentally ready.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

I try to play each ball on its merit.

I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.

Not everyone is Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Even Cristiano Ronaldo's first years at Manchester United were quite difficult.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come into my own until very late. I feel that's true in cinema, too. I didn't even start 'Metropolitan' until I was 37.

Whenever we go to the cinema in Mexico, we have to get taken in two minutes before the film starts. We sit in a little room and wait for everyone else to sit down, or it becomes very difficult. Then, afterwards, there are people outside waiting for me.

I thought that I was going to be Mrs. Michael Jackson, but I was ready at 20 and 21 to get married, and he was not even close to getting married or having a girlfriend at that time, but yes, we dated. We dated for a while.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

There are times when I am supposed to get off work by seven but only reach home by midnight because of production delays.