Quotes About Patience

My boys have both said they want to be in the movies or on TV, and anytime I hear that, I say, 'That's wonderful; you're free to do it right after you graduate from college.'

I wish I'd got my driving license at 18, not 22. I also wish I had graduated earlier, even though I didn't finish college.

When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all.

I'd be up three grand and I'd end up losing the lot. It didn't affect me because I knew I was about to get a move and the signing-on fee would make up for the money I lost.

I always think of my grandfather as the original foodie. He was the slowest eater. He savored everything. Even when everyone was gone from the table, he was still eating.

My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.

I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

I think that when I was first starting out, even after I was on 'Gilmore Girls,' when things were going pretty well, I was constantly focused on what's next, how can my career get bigger? I could've had a little more fun, and I think I could've had a little more gratitude for the job I did have.

You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don't close the book. Don't give up.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

I'm a great believer in the idea that if it's meant to be, it will be.

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.