Quotes About Fulfillment

I've always said I want to have a book with my name on it in the shops one day, so to have that actually happen is beyond exciting to me!

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

I never go to parties. I never go to premieres. You can't play that game, because it's short-lived and you want a life.

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

Every shot makes someone happy.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

At one point of time, I would like to shoulder a film on myself.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

I think the first goal can be weight off your shoulders.

I feel that everything I dreamed of became reality. I feel like nothing is on my shoulders any more.

I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.

There is more to life than show business.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.

People seldom get the right platform or direction. I have seen a lot of people who did not get the right place to showcase their talent.

Why cannot a woman be shown working out of choice, the way men do? Can't a woman work because she enjoys it and is capable of doing it? Why should they be shown leaving home for employment as a sacrifice for the family?

Don't run after shows and money.

I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

I don't need any more awards.

You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things.

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

We never think about how many awards we've won. We just want to make the best music we can.