Christopher Lloyd Quotes

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Don't take 'no' for an answer.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

In this business, you have to have what they call an idiotic determination to succeed.

I will not retreat; I will find the strength to reach my goal.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

I knew I wanted to be an actor the first time I thought it wasn't going to be possible and decided to go another way. I was filled with this incredible sadness - and every time my life led me away from it, I fought to get back to it.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.

A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.

What keeps you in this business is the thought that maybe tomorrow will be different.

Quitting is not part of my DNA.

There are so many people telling you no, but if you love what you do, no one can stop you.