Abigail Disney Quotes

I had no godfather/godmother/filmi family backing me, but I made it only because I just believed in my talent, and my audience reposed their faith in me. So, I always say that my godfather in B-town has been my audience. Without them, I would be nowhere.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.

When you become a wrestler at 35 and your career takes off at 40, nobody believes in you. But there are some people out there who watch how I did it, and I did it through intense work ethic.

I started playing basketball very late, and for me to make it to the league so fast... I've always said my life is a movie.

I thought I'd be on TV and movies - that's what I really wanted - and I can't believe I didn't need to do that. I did it on my own with just me and my camera. That's very, very weird.

I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.

I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.

My story is more real life than most. Most Hall of Famers have great careers before they get inducted. I'm not supposed to be part of this conversation.

I think 'Sound of My Voice' was the first film where suddenly I could point to something I had done that I was proud of and say, 'Look at this piece of work.' And that's probably what led to 'Fruitvale Station,' which was the real break.

I produced 'Highway' and 'Chhichhore' for creative satisfaction.

When I look at character artistes, they begin after 40. For instance, Boman Irani took up his first film after he was 40. Since I too, am in my 40s, I think I am finally getting to be in my zone.

I'm not U.S.A. Olympic image. I didn't go to college. I came from a different route.

As long as I get to do the kind of work I want to do, I am okay with being a Z-lister.

It's amazing because I've done so many of these things I've always wanted to do - almost everything - in my career.

It's unbelievable when I think back to when I was a kid that one day I would have achieved so much through boxing, and to think my teachers laughed at me when I said I was going to be a boxer.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist.

I don't ever want to be an established actor as I don't want this struggle to end.

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was.

When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a table for my Christmas. If I hadn't got that, then none of this would have happened.

Though I was the last child in the family, I was the first to enter the film industry.

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.