Quotes About Success

The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.

I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

The 'Smallville' pilot is the one I get a lot of attention for. I did a couple of earlier ones, but the 'Smallville' pilot is the one that got things really rolling.

Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I did a couple of pilots that didn't sell, a few movies, and one year of nightclub work, which I hated. Then I did the pilot of 'The Brady Bunch' and never had to do another nightclub.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I've done so many pilots I thought were good that didn't work, and so many that I thought were bad that did work.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

I hustled my way through college playing pinball.

Sometimes, I pinch myself. Through everything, its about hard work... believing in yourself and in the American dream. Believe that you can make something out of yourself.

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

Sometimes, you pinch yourself. I get to do such incredibly fun things with people who are of such an incredible caliber. It's really, really awesome.

I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.

I do have to pinch myself at times when I look back at some of the things I have achieved. I really do.

'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.

After 'Pink,' I wanted to do something that would challenge me further as an actor.

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

I am not at a level where I will be flooded with offers. Hopefully, things will change after 'Pink.' It is one film after 'Shaitan' where I am hoping things will change for me.