Quotes about Persistence

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

One thing I have always believed in is to never give up.

I've worked with Judd since 'Undeclared,' and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.

When I booked 'Arrested Development,' which was a fantastic job, and I was working with an amazing cast and some of the best writing I've ever done, I still found myself looking for the next thing.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

There's no excuse to give up the hand you're dealt. You've just got to keep fighting and make something positive out of it.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

We insist, it seems, on living.