Quotes About Achievement

I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Everybody's expecting a lot from me.

Everyone expects goals, and I want to score them, but most of all, I want to contribute to a successful team.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

I had the best season, probably of my career, when I first arrived and then the second year I was still top scorer. I then went through a little stage of... when you have set that bar so high, then everybody expects it every week that goes by.

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.

Make up your mind what you want to do, and go and get it. Make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else, though.

It is nice to be the most expensive Dutchman, and it is nice for my agent and for Ajax. But it does not matter to me whether I cost €5m or €150m or €200m. I just need to make sure that I do my own thing.

I want to be the most expensive full-back ever because when you reach that it shows that you are one of the best full-back of the world.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.

My desire is always to play, and that will never change, I've experienced too much and had too much success.

I've experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.

It was one of the best experiences in my life to work with Director Prem.

I don't look at anything in my life as achievements. I look at them as experiences.

I think everyone loves 'The Departed.' That was a movie that had a lot of problems structurally. And we had to battle with it. Fight. Experiment. Try different things. And I think finally we hit it.

My dream is to make my parents happy and experiment as far as characters are concerned.

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

What the manager says is what's important to me. What experts say doesn't interest me and never will. I know what I can do. I've not been playing at the top level for nothing. I've been successful.

As an actor, 'Baahubali' has given me so much that I can't explain in words.

I am proud of whatever my parents have achieved. In fact, it drives me to excel in life, to perform even better and explore myself.

I don't think there is much left that I can explore as an actor.

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.