I feel lucky because I was a nerd which I talk about in the book but I had academic success so through that because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So to keep in touch with that I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being everything else is gravy I think.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is and I love God.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success but without it you don't have a chance.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved not because it is sought after.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling as in all careers of importance victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

They succeed because they think they can.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play and a journey of some sort.

I've always been really athletic which really helped because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

There was a perception of me and I earned it because I was really intense really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor but it's not easy.

The future belongs to us because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment we have the resourcefulness and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose I wouldn't have been a comic.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

The more I get to do this character the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

About 10 000 years ago males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals and then males took over the power because they have physical power and physical strength.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

It's funny because in drama school my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.