What I learned from Beyonce is just the focus, the drive, and to stay creative and to always give, just keep giving. Throughout the years that she's been doing it, since Destiny's Child to now, she's been giving.
If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'
It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles that I've dreamed of doing.
I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.
It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.
Within a year I will return from America—victorious.
All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
Talk about full circle, I never saw this coming. It wasn't like I said, 'Someday, I want to be the head coach at the University of Memphis.'
'Taxi' made a big difference because it got me into comedy.
It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.
I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
From a kid who didn't come from much success growing up but watched Muhammad Ali and Hulk Hogan, to where I am today... I tell kids, 'You can achieve anything you want as long as you stick with it.'
After everything that's happened, I'm sitting here in my last year of college football. I'm just happy. I'm in a good spot.
I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success.
It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.
I'm a guy who struggled to get to where he is, and only through hard work and dedication have I been able to find my success.
I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.
When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.
'MasterChef' semi-finalist, who would have thought it? I couldn't be happier, it's not always going to be that smooth a sail so I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
I was in Girls' Generation because of luck, and fortunately, Girls' Generation received a lot of love. I would want to help my daughter walk a different career path.
I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.
