Michael Ian Black Quotes

Genius is eternal patience.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

Stay true to your vision/dream. There's something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up.

If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that's annoying - it drives my husband mad - but even if something's not going my way, I have to see it through.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I've always been tenacious.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I am very tenacious.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

It is much easier to start something than to finish it.

I'm not a quitter - never have been.

Sticking with your craft goes a long way in ensuring that you'll be successful.

I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition.

A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability to keep getting things made, period.

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

You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you've got to be in the theater.

I was always tenacious.

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

When I'm going to do something, I go all in.

I am so dedicated, so passionate, and that counts for more than what crazy people throw at me.