I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a produc...
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.
I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like ...
We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.
The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we all understood how fortunate we were to be in that place, to have achieved that success worldwide.
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
