Quotes About Success

VUU had won some national championships and had a great coach in Dave Robbins.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.

Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

David Cassidy is my father, yes... But for me, it was always really important with acting to stay in class, study it, and earn it on my own. My dad didn't help me.

I see a David West score 47, and yeah, it'd be cool to put up numbers like that. But I don't need that to make me happy.

All I can do is keep doing the best I can, and every opportunity I get, I'll try to put balls in like David Beckham.

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

I'd been working with Chuck Lorre since the dawn of time, starting with 'Dharma and Greg,' so when I get a call about a really cool opportunity to work with him, I say yes, even before I know what it is.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

I never get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back you in this day and age.

When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

Hollywood is my day job.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.

It took me nine years to get to the level of being Mr. Olympia, and it's pretty much a 24-hour-a-day job every day of the year, really, if you want to compete on that level.

I wanted to be great, that's from day one.

I want to be dominant from day one.

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.