I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.
You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.
If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.
The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
