Best I Quit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You need to GIVE UP on methods that always give you wrong results... No matter how committed you are with a wrong formular, it always gives a wrong answer. Give up!”

“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“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.”

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Author:George Lopez

“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.”

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Author:George Lopez

“I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.”

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.”

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Author:Jean Smart

“One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.”

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Author:Bernie Taupin

“I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.”

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Author:Barry Mann

“I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.”

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Book:My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto

Source: My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto

“I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore”

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Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.”

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Author:Brad Pitt

“I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

“I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinction…You retire when the game has had enough of you. You quit when you have had enough of the game.”

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Author:Mercury Morris

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

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Author:Lance Armstrong

“All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago”

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Author:Larry Hagman

“I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.”

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Author:Nomi Prins

“I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.”

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Author:Jim Jefferies

“I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.”

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Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.”

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Author:Ron White

“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I knew that if I woke up hung over, I couldn't do the best possible job on the show, so I had to quit. Also, I'd consumed a lot of beer for a lot of years, and I thought, That's enough. I've had my fun and I'm glad I quit.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.”

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Author:Billy Crystal

“I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?”

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Author:Melanie Griffith

“After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.”

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Author:Rob Machado

“I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.”

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Author:Andrew Pyper

“Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.”

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Author:Kurt Fuller

“I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.”

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Author:Missy Peregrym

“I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.”

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Author:Lloyd Waner

“I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.”

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Author:Jonathan Hickman

“I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.”

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Author:Michael Gira

“I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.”

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Author:Michael Stipe

“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.”

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Author:David Feherty

“To say, “I've been converted and that's that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.”

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Author:Steve Goodier

“I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.”

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Author:Hugh Hefner

“My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.”

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Author:Katherine Heigl

“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.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.”

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Author:Agnes Varda

“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.”

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Author:Jay Ellis

“You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried."”

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Author:Jay Ellis

“I've never retired. And I've never said, "I quit."”

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Author:Parnelli Jones

“Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.”

“Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.”

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Author:John Mayer

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

“The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.”

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Author:Robert Stone

“I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.”

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Author:Nina Dobrev

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