Quotes About Success

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

I want to be the next Paul Pierce.

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren't pigeonholed the same way.

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

I sell bikinis. I sell comforters. I sell Cam'ron pillows. I sell a bunch of things off my likeness, and it all came from music, so it's definitely a blessing.

I can't tell you how good it is to go from 'Homeland' to be lucky enough to find 'The Blacklist' at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'

As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was focused on scoring high marks so that I could do an MBA in marketing.

More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.