Michael Ealy Quotes

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

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.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

You get what you're good enough to take.

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.

If you play well, then you make yourself a great name and the money comes on its own. You earn money for what you did.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.

Winning the Ballon d'Or is the consequence of your work.

There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

Cristiano deserved to win everything he's won in his career.

I won't tell you that I'm lucky to be here because I know I'm skilled, and I know I'm talented in the ring. That doesn't mean that I don't appreciate the opportunity.

I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.

If you're good at what you do, people get really, really invested in that.

Being Prince's sister might get me in the door, but it is my own talent that keeps me on the stage.

I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued - merit.

I get to share the stage with some of the best.