Quotes About Success

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.

By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize.

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

I like to go into an audition room, particularly when they think I'm not right for a part, and really fight for it. There's something so exciting and challenging about proving to yourself that you can pull it off.

There have been instances of many trying to pull me down in Mollywood. However, I have no complaints.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

It all comes back to the same place, whether she does well, I do well, or we both do well, which is obviously what we're hoping for. It's all good. You know? We're definitely pull for each other.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

'Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

'Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became impossible for us to get away from it. We'd get pulled over by cops who would thank us and then would let us go.

The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.

I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

I always believed if you worked honestly and pulled for the team, you could keep moving up. So, that's what I did.