Quotes About Achievement

It has been an honour to lead Pakistan at the highest level.

The educated youth are the future of Pakistan and they will make us proud in the future too.

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

I am the first Pakistani actress who got the opportunity to work with Shah Rukh Khan as the main lead.

Put your head down and work hard and you can achieve what you want. You can end up in Buckingham Palace.

No. 1 career highlight? It would have to be getting the MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I was aware that there weren't many make up brands that catered for women for extra pale skin so I feel proud that I've been the person to do it.

If I could palm a ball I probably could have more dunks than I have in my career, but I still can get the job done.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.

The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.

There's nothing 'flash in the pan' about my career. It's been built fan by fan, city by city.

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

It was amazing to look across the net and see grown men and the panic in their eyes that they were close to losing to a kid. It was a very empowering moment for me.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!

My father came from a chawl and became a top star in Bollywood and worked very hard for us. When I look at my dad, I feel very good that my papa did so much.

I was proud of Papa for his sports.

The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date.