Tiffany Darwish Quotes

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that's painful.

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

I was told 'you can't play for England, you're at Bolton.' I proved them wrong.

People think that you're gonna come out, be a one hit wonder, and finished. You gotta prove 'em wrong.

I'm kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I'm too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you'll never be anything.

When I first started to sing, people automatically asked what Barbi Benton was doing behind a microphone, and I'm determined to show them there is talent here.

If people keep telling you you can't do a thing, then you need to find a really good reason to continue. If someone tells you you can't do something, how will you know? If someone tells you something is impossible, how will you know?

When I hear people say that they don't think that I can do something or they don't think I belong somewhere, that's all it takes for me to prove them wrong, and it's motivation.

I want people to see that I'm not a one-hit wonder.

I came to Chelsea and it was 'oh you can't play Champions League, you can't do this, you can't do that' and I proved them wrong.

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.

I'm just ready to go out there and prove to everybody that I'm not as small as everybody says I am.

I feel like people think that I have mental lapses and I'm injury-prone, which isn't true. You just don't know me.

I've been told what I can't do my whole life.

When I was a kid, people kept saying, 'You can't do this, you can't do that,' and I wanted to prove them wrong.

When I first got to WWE, people thought I was going to be fired within three months. No one liked me; no one wanted me there, whether it was the fans or the people backstage. I had to fight and fight and fight to earn my spot.