Quotes About Effort

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

I'm super grateful, and whenever somebody offers me something, and I'm doing it, I always try to give 110%.

At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

You may look at us actors and think that, 'Oh my God, they are so pretty, so perfect.' But that's not how it is. It takes two hours to get ready and look like this.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

It's never OK to lose a game.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

Young and older people need to learn relationships take time and effort.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

I'm looking towards that Olympic medal and that Olympic gold and what it's going to take to get there.

Winning a title in Olympic year is never easy.

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.