Quotes About Achievement

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

I don't love big films for the sake of big films. It's not been a career drive to get to that point.

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

What I realized is that no matter what you do, you're not alone in life. Every accomplishment worth a salt, there is someone else there who played a role and took a part.

I have enough confidence at the moment to say that I have the potential to play at the same level as Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery.

I remember watching Argentina beat the U.S. in 2004 and I think maybe the same story that Argentina wrote with the 'Gold Generation,' we can write, too.

If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.

A lot of people try to take away the things I have done and try to give other people credit for the things they have done and won't give me the same amount of credit in the ring for doing the same things or more.

There isn't anything I wanted to do that I haven't. At the same time, there isn't anything I've ever done that I didn't want to do better.

At the movies, when I see Sandra Bullock or Winona Ryder, I think, 'I can do that!'

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

When I'm sat at 45 and retired, I want to look back and see what I've done and that I've played games rather than having come to the end of my career and tailed off.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

I don't have to manage a big club. That won't fulfil me. I will get more satisfaction from the work that I put in than where I am.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfaction from their jobs. That's something that I really do get a lot of.

As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.

I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

My true satisfaction came when my parents told me that someone had seen me on TV and congratulated them.

For me, movie-making is more than making a 'hit' film. It's about working with a team of people I really respect and doing something that gives me satisfaction.

I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

You cannot appreciate the sense of satisfaction that I get from my job.