Quotes About Achievement

My hero is Roger Federer.

To spend time with Ed Harris... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

I don't compete with actresses; I only compete with heroes.

My heroes were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.

I hope to make history at the club and become one of the great heroes of Manchester City.

One of my early heroes was Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

Every heroine aspires to do a role like that of Soundarya in 'Apthamithra' when they work with me.

I had grown up fantasising of being Yash Chopra's heroine because I have loved his films.

I never stopped being a heroine. I began acting when I was four and bagged my first film as a heroine at the age of 15.

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job.

After my parents' divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn't super educated herself. But there were a lot of kids from the subcontinent in the neighbourhood, many of whom were academic achievers. So my sister and I grew up around them, and both of us did well in school.

Liv never wanted to be a hellion. From an early age, she used to make all these wish lists for herself and then try to live up to them.

My mother was a proud and capable woman. She was among the first class of college graduates after China's Cultural Revolution, then immigrated to the U.S. by herself.

For everybody wanting to make herself counted you have to put your success before you.

I go back to my secondary school to speak to the people there and say, 'If you want to become something, don't ever hesitate, don't ever feel like you can't do it. Just look at my path, look at where I've come.'

If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

I can remember watching other Canadians make their big breakouts and saying, 'Hey Mom, when is it going to happen for me?'

Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'

Everybody wanted to make it. One guy makes it. In a family when one guy makes it... 'Hey ain't you going to help us out?'

I showed everyone the medal and they said, 'Ooh, I can't believe how heavy it is,' Sometimes they were more interested in the medal than in me. I was like, 'Hey, what about me?'