Quotes About Achievement

I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.

I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.

I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really.

'Ready Player One' is an actor's dream, so - I mean, to work with Spielberg is - everything.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.

What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.

Questlove redefined what a band can be, and Paul Shaffer and Max Weinberg really put their own spin on it. I bow down to these people. All of them.

I was obsessed with 'Top Spin' for some reason, and I wanted to be the best in the game. I think at one time on Xbox Live I was ranked about 60th. I just couldn't put that one down.

I really feel gratitude every day in my life that I'm able to do what I love, and I think, because I have that passion and spirit, I've had success.

The innovators' spirit of America still exists. However, there is a narrative in America which goes like - you must go to MIT to get your calling card. Or you go to Harvard and then you drop out and then you've made it.

It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash, from the very beginning, had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.

It is very important to set yourself goals and work on them. It lifts your spirits and helps you focus.

I read all these books about excellence, and then I went into spirituality, and all these books were really about leveling up. Being the best version of yourself.

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

This industry can take you in and spit you out. It's overwhelming. But I keep my feet on the ground, my Air Max on the gravel.

I really just hope people feel able to achieve because of society, and not in spite of it, and I hope it's not so much of a battle as it was for me.

Proving to my friends, family, and the people that I love that they were wrong - that in spite of my age and my lack of experience, I could change sport and achieve something really special - gives me a lot of satisfaction.

I think the good part about me as a personality is in spite of being in the industry for more than 20 years, I didn't really face any controversy in my life.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

I lost my captaincy after winning the series 2-0, and also getting a Test match 100. I never captained India after that. I couldn't play one-day cricket in spite of being the best ODI player in the world at that time.

We have won laurels for the country in wrestling but still, in spite of winning medals, not many people recognised us.

I don't play in spite of people, I play for the people who pushed me along, the people who have helped me succeed.