Ann Reinking Quotes

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which.

I was always tenacious.

We must be relentless and resilient.

I will never give up, and I will never give in.

Quitting is not part of my DNA.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

We will never forget and we will not relent until our job is done.