Quotes About Achievement

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

I don't like when people say I act good for my age. Who would have said that to Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson when they were filming 'Harry Potter?'

I'm really proud of my partnership with Pottery Barn Kids.

Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my heart pounding, Oscar in my hand, all I can say is I am grateful and humbled - still to this day. Next to marrying my husband and the birth of my children, it is one of the best days ever.

There have been so many pivotal moments throughout my career, and I look back and say I really craved big moments - when your heart's pounding and everything is on the line.

As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.

When you tell a recruiter that you're almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn't go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

I'm at 23 feet, diving into 17 feet of water. I'm over 400 pounds. Who doesn't want to see that? I do. I'm always shocked that I can do it.

My buddy lost about 100 pounds cycling. He took me on a 31-mile loop. I was hooked.

I think I'm the best in the world at 170 pounds, so why would I need to go down? If, at some point, I beat everyone at 170, I'd consider going up. If I've eliminated all my challenges, yeah, at that point I would consider going up.

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

Moving forward at 160 pounds, I feel like this where I should have been the whole time.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

If I'm just doing the sprints and not have such a massive program, I can really pour everything into it.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

For me, education was power.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!