Jodie Comer Quotes

I always believed in myself when I was not playing much.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'

Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

Never give up.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

What's really hard is when you're having those more difficult days, you've got to be able to dig down deep and be able to go out there and do what it takes to be the best you can be, even on the hardest days.