Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

The first time I mentioned publicly that I had known Viola for some time, many people took it like Viola got me the job in 'Fences'. ”

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance. ”

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. ”

If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in. ”

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life. ”

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy. ”

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth. ”

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources. ”

I have been fighting for democracy since I was 15 when I organised a strike to oppose the Hong Kong government's plan to introduce the Chinese patriotic school education; 100,000 people surrounded a government building with students asking for democracy for every citizen. ”

Being famous is part of my job. ”