Quotes About Achievement

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.

I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.

I am really happy that Miss World pageant takes keen interest in my projects.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

I was told I would never win a pageant because I was too little. But not only did I win, but then when I was told I would never be able to model because I was a pageant girl, I became a model and I was successful at it.

Before I won Miss Diva in 2015, I had won the pageant once before in 2012. Back then, it was called Miss Universe India.

One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really surprised that I wanted to take part!

At the age of 18, I had participated in a beauty pageant. I represented India and won the title. That was my last competition. First and last.

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

I made history being crowned the second black woman to win Miss U.S.A. and I was fifth place in The Miss Universe pageant.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.

I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'

As a woman of color and curve model, I never imagined when I started modeling that I would be featured in the pages of 'Sports Illustrated.'

Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.

I've never come out and said, 'I hold the most pay-per-view buys.' All I know is what I got paid, and I'm happy.

I came from a rugby school and rugby nation, but I fancied giving football a go, and luckily, it paid off.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.