Quotes About Success

We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

What 'Billions' does so brilliantly is they just make it a non-issue. Damien Lewis' character says, 'Those are the pronouns you use? Great, let's get down to business. How can you make me money?'

It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars - like really had the ability to do that.

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

When you're on the way up, you have to take all the jobs because bills have to be paid.

We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.

It's nice to know there's a way to pay the bills other than third-and-8 and getting your bell rung.

We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.

The best day was when we got bin Laden.

My first film was a super-hit. It made the producer earn a lot of money and gave me a lot of fame. The funny part is that I acted in Tum Bin' as a project for which I was paid a stipend and not the money that comes to the star of a very popular film.

I aspired to make 'Tum Bin II' better than my first film, if not as good as 'Tum Bin.'

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

I want to show people my successful side, but I want to show you my bipolar side, too.

My record is good with Birmingham and Wigan. Just study the facts.

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

I always try to work on my birthday.

People shouldn't think that something is their birthright. They need to prove themselves.

The film musical is a very strange animal. They can bite you in the back, or they can do very well for you.

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's what I do.

You don't want people to think, 'Oh, she was a person who was bitter because she didn't win.' You can't always win at everything.

I think the black community has a lot to work on internally with what they deem successful.

A lot of times, people take other people's confidence for cockiness, airheadedness, rashness or brashness, and that's the light in which they see you when you say you always knew you'd be a champion, blah blah blah. Well, you have to be confident in the sport we do. As an athlete, in general, you have to be confident.