Quotes About Success

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.

Put your head down and work hard and you can achieve what you want. You can end up in Buckingham Palace.

I'm glad I came to Palace because I am getting the game time I wanted. I am also learning to fight with some good players.

It's hard to keep training at your best, but I made sure I did for when the time came, or when I did get opportunities like at Palace.

No. 1 career highlight? It would have to be getting the MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

If I could palm a ball I probably could have more dunks than I have in my career, but I still can get the job done.

When we first started, we were best pals and we all got along great. As we got older, when the money started coming in, everyone changed in different ways.

I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.

There's nothing 'flash in the pan' about my career. It's been built fan by fan, city by city.

It can be easy to just be a professional half the time, and you may see half the results, but when you're consistent, you can see your full results and you can pan out to be who you want to be year by year.

Female standups are like hustlers. We have to be. We fight to get gigs or on to panel shows. We're made to earn it in a very different way to men.

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

My father came from a chawl and became a top star in Bollywood and worked very hard for us. When I look at my dad, I feel very good that my papa did so much.