Quotes About Success

After I graduated, I didn't have the resources to go to the studio, which is why I then went to social media.

There was a period where I was like, 'I'm gonna have to be in the closet if I want to be successful.' But then I sort of made the decision right when I graduated college that that wasn't going to be my route. Even if it took longer to get work, I at least was gonna be true to myself.

When I went to theater school, most of the people I graduated with aren't working. I've consistently worked and made a good living.

I barely graduated high school.

Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are graduating, you have to figure some of our children are getting a greater equalizer than others.

The only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.

Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.

If you think that one should do a commercial picture because everyone is doing it and that one will become a big star after that, I think that if you don't have that grain in you, it will not happen.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

I think every artist should go for a Grammy.

I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'

I've been to the Grammy's several times for my past nominations and it has always a fun experience.

Ridin' was natural, not forced. I didn't try to make a Grammy record.

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.

Never in my life have I thought, 'Man, I gotta get a Grammy.'

I want every Grammy.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.