Quotes about Persistence

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.

I have always been of the belief that whatever the conditions, you just crack on with it.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.