Quotes about Achievement

I still did some things in football, but I needed to get away from the game. I needed closure. And once I felt I'd achieved that, the hunger came back. That fire in your belly, the desire to feel the adrenaline at the weekend. That's when I felt I was able to go again.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment.

After 'Fukrey,' when a filmmaker came to narrate a film to me, I started crying. It was a dream come true moment for me.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'