Quotes About Achievement

I'm a late bloomer in music.

Everybody knows I'm a late bloomer.

Track and field is a sport that's about 'What have you done for me lately?'

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.

I have so much history with Just For Laughs. My career took off there.

I'm definitely proud of myself anytime I can make Amanda Peet break out into laughter.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

I've worked so hard for years, and it's just incredible to see my clothes in Dorothy Perkins. I got quite emotional at the launch.

For me, being successful meant not having to do my laundry at a laundromat and not having a second job.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

I think that I've been living on my laurels.

I feel great when people like my work, but after a day or two, I don't keep that in my head. I go back to working and training. I don't rest on my laurels.

I was the girl who kind of went straight from high school to college. Then straight from college to law school.

I worked my way through law school.

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African-American president. They would have laughed in your face.

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

I want to see myself as being the king of this: the king of music, man, and everything I lay my hands on.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.