Perdita Weeks Quotes

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

I've gotten tougher.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

All the rejection that I've been through only made me stronger, and it's part of being an entrepreneur. You kind of have to take the kid gloves off and let them feel it because it's not going to be the first time that someone's going to say "no" or close a door in your face. You're going to have to figure out how to burst through it.

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

My sons have to learn that you take the rough with the smooth and they've seen a lot of smooth in the years that they've been around. They didn't see the early years. But both my mum and myself are actors and we constantly tell them it's not easy. But they understand that.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.