Michael Emerson Quotes

I'd like to think I've overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever going to write my own songs or have children.

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment.

I was always motivated to make my parents proud and wait for that one opportunity. Finally, it happened with 'Yevade Subramanyam,' and since then, I have never looked back.

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

After a series of failures, to be part of a project like 'Baahubali: The Beginning' is dream-like, and it's easily the most unexpected thing of my career.

I almost wrote my career off. I wasn't quite good enough and I thought that ship had sailed. But I carried on, won the World Under-21 Championship in 2003 and got the tour card.

2014 is a year I'll remember for a long time - it was definitely a breakthrough in my mind as well. Standing on the top step of the podium a few times was icing on the cake.

I've been very lucky. The moment I decided to return to films, I got two good projects.

When you get a chance to get a W, that's the most important thing.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

There have been great things that happened to me.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

Every dog must have his day.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.