Allison Scagliotti
Allison Scagliotti

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

Donna Rice
Donna Rice

I was always an overachiever.

Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Jessica Henwick
Jessica Henwick

I was a real overachiever.

John Legend
John Legend

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Maysoon Zayid
Maysoon Zayid

I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and yearbook editor and, like, all-around overachiever. Like, I'm disabled, but I can do anything.

Michelle Wolf
Michelle Wolf

I'm a standard overachiever.

Mike Singletary
Mike Singletary

The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy.

Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace

Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle.

Rachel Simmons
Rachel Simmons

I've spent years in therapy excavating my endless, often fruitless drive to overachieve. I have learned that being successful hasn't made me happy. It's just made me successful. I even call myself a recovering overachiever.