Quotes About Patience

Comedy is quite hard and it takes like a decade to figure out what kind of comedian you are, so don't quit.

Once you quit football, you might want to come back. But if you sit out a year, you're finished.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

I am looking forward to my next race. What comes, comes.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

Have you seen a marathon race? Some runners will be leading right from the first - but after the halfway mark, it is the runners at the back who take over while the early leaders fade out.

During the race there's only so much you can do. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.

When I was a kid, I used to play a game called 'Grand Prix Two.' Interlagos was always the first race of the season on that, and I never really got much past the second race. I would always restart the season, so I always seemed to be doing Interlagos - it was a real pain!

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

I know that's definitely the way for me to run races - instead of trying to burn up at the front and blowing up, it's always better to be passing people at the end.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

In racing you're not going to win every week, and we understand that.

Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.

I'm terrible for road rage.

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

Hope raises no dust.