I Didn't Quit Quotes

#1. I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

David Feherty

#2. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

Jane Campion

#3. When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

Loretta Lynn

#4. I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

Tom Arnold

#5. I didn't quit drinking. I stopped drinking shitty alcohol with assholes. And that, my friend, was the healthiest choice I've ever made.

Grant Morrison

#6. It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful ... To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

Mark Hoppus

#7. I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

Jane Powell

#8. Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

John Darnielle

#9. I am still a student. My classmates study really hard, so I feel like I should too. But they always say things like: "You don't have to.", "Aren't you busy?", "Just give up, you have another way."; But I don't think that's right. There's no reason for me to give up, I didn't quit high school.

Seohyun

#10. I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Don DeLillo

#11. The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

Mariska Hargitay

#12. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway".

Stevie Nicks

#13. I am not sad, nor I am satisfied and made my peace with circumstances, never, I don't compromise.
The major challenge of walking alone without guidance you get late. You reach, because you didn't quit walking but when you reach there, you see a crowd whining at you.

Himmilicious

#14. I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Robert Englund

#15. I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

Mike Wallace

#16. I liked it. I craved it. I wanted more and I took it. I took it like I needed it, like my life had a limit and if I didn't get as much of it as I could, I'd quit breathing the next instant.

Kristen Ashley

#17. I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

Brad Holland

#18. I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

Elia Kazan

#19. I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Steven Spielberg

#20. When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

Alison Bechdel

#21. I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

#22. I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

Barry Sanders

#23. When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

Sharon Olds

#24. I've quit.
I didn't get your resignation letter. Invite me in.

Kitty French

#25. I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Tom Lehrer

#26. Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

Herb Ritts

#27. I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.

Shuji Nakamura

#28. This is my 51st year, but I'm not ready to quit. I definitely didn't think when I first started back in 1963 that I'd be doing this for 50 years, but how many guys can say they do it? When retirement comes, I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be ready for it.

Verne Lundquist

#29. I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.

Bear Bryant

#30. I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

Orson Scott Card

#31. I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

Ernest Cline

#32. I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

Patrick Wilson

#33. I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.

Steve Martin

#34. My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

Dorothy Arzner

#35. I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

George Carlin

#36. Shepley's girlfriend had introduced me to my very own form of crack. I couldn't get enough, and I didn't want to quit.

Jamie McGuire

#37. I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

Conor Maynard

#38. Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

Harry Callahan

#39. In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

David Spade

#40. From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

Naya Rivera

#41. I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.

Deena Kastor

#42. My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

Rob Zombie

#43. I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work.

Rachel Gibson

#44. I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.

Reginald Arvizu

#45. As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Mariska Hargitay

#46. Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Peter Forsberg

#47. I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Lance Armstrong

#48. Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

Sebastian Thrun

#49. For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.

Perry Chen

#50. I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

Julie Doucet

#51. Ke'unta clearly stated that he didn't trust his daughter with his parents, so why couldn't I just accept that and quit trying to force them to step up and communicate with Keonna. I'm

Tynessa

#52. I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Barry White

#53. I quit because I was good, and when you're good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.'
'Of what?'
'Of what part of yourself you didn't know you were selling.

Kirsten Kaschock

#54. I believe I've still got lots and lots to do. When I left Herman's Hermits in 1973, I said one day I'm gonna be in a Broadway show, and I thought it would be in 1974. Then, it took me ten years to do it, but I didn't ever quit.

Peter Noone

#55. I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed.

Caprice Crane

#56. Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

Olga Korbut

#57. You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job ... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#58. I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Macaulay Culkin

#59. Look, I didn't ask for any of this, but I'm here now. I get that it's dangerous. I get that I'm fat. I get that I'm about as far from prepared for this insanity as you can get. But I'll tell you something about me: I don't quit. So enough with the let's-scare-the-fat-girl routine, okay?

Bill Blais

#60. I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Allen Neuharth

#61. I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

Jay Ellis

#62. I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

George Lopez

#63. I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#64. It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

George Lopez

#65. After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

Wes Bentley

#66. I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

Peg Bracken

#67. I quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice.

Stewart Francis

#68. If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I would've quit ages ago.

Franz Kafka

#69. That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If only her voice didn't sound so young.

Kaye George

#70. I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

David Rees