Successful Quotes

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.

I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

I feel very fortunate to have been a part of many successful contemporary horror franchises.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

You get frustrated when you don't win and when you're not successful. You have to keep battling. You don't give up. You don't start second guessing yourself.

The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And so I think it can be very effective, so long as you're not actually crazy.

For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

Then I will tape the sets and even though I'm not very successful sometimes I will try to cut out the fat and put the jokes closer together.

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.