Joanne Liu Quotes

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I record myself talking. I have a journal. And when I listen back, I remember why I wanted certain things. I listen to me at 16, saying 'I really wanna be on TV... I want a movie, a huge movie...' and I'm just like, 'Yo, I'm humbled. I'm living a life I imagined.'

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I'll probably be the same. I'll still think I'm not the greatest singer I can be.

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I'm always trying to improve.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.