Quotes About Challenges

I am tired of saying no to item songs. I don't want to be known as an item number girl.

We Can't Stop' - everyone said that it wasn't going to work on pop radio, because it didn't have an EDM-type beat. But it went to No. 2 on Billboard and No. 1 on iTunes.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

The path was not easier for Jackie Robinson simply because he embraced God.

I did a record with Janet Jackson, and it went to the top of the charts, and we had all of these complications, and she couldn't be in the video and couldn't do anything for the record. I went through something similar with Pitbull. I think it works really well for a lot of other artists, but for me, it just doesn't work that well.

I'm sure most actors, after a while, get a bit jaded.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime.

If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'

I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And that I think is probably a little more true because I'm a woman.

To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to nothing.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.

In chatting to directors over the years, including James Wan, they always tell you the war stories. No one ever says, 'Oh, I had a great time on that film.' It's always this went wrong, that went wrong.

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

There is a lot to do in Cleveland. It's just those December, January, February months that are tough. But there is a lot to do there.

The buzz we had in 2000-01 was unique. We played 34 matches between January 1 and May 19, but lost only four.

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.