Frank Cady Quotes

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.

Before 'New Girl,' I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don't know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be - and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there - to get a show on the air and keep it going.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

The big talent is persistence.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.