Quotes About Achievement

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back you in this day and age.

When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

It took me nine years to get to the level of being Mr. Olympia, and it's pretty much a 24-hour-a-day job every day of the year, really, if you want to compete on that level.

I wanted to be great, that's from day one.

I want to be dominant from day one.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

My goal from Day One has always been to be proud of myself when I retire, whenever that may be and whatever I may have accomplished to that point.

I'm proud of what I did in 'Daybreak.'

I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid.

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

I don't know anyone who's started more consecutive Daytona 500s than me.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

I think if I had a choice, I'd like to be in a film with De Niro.

Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day.

Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Buckeye born and bred. Now an H-O-F-er - even after I'm dead.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.