Quotes About Achievement

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

It ain't how you start out, it's how you finish.

My star will probably continue to rise, and I will start hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z and take them to a Toby Carvery.

If I know it's going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get back in the dugout.

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Initially, I didn't have much knowledge about cinema. But once I started doing good films, precisely after 'Kaaka Muttai,' people started respecting me as a performer.

I think I'ma make every hood proud. Everybody that ever seen me come up, know what I came from, know how I came up, know where I started. I feel like I'ma just make everybody proud.

Finishing what you started is important.

To look back where I started from, you can't help but be amazed.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

If I'm going to be a sixth man, I'm going to go for Sixth Man of the Year. If I'm a starter, I'm definitely trying to be a great player either way.

If I am ever the starter of the Denver Broncos, I want it to be because I earned it.

Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league, it's put me in a good situation.