Quotes About Success

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.

People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius.

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

I love bouncing between different genres. And comedy, obviously, is something I enjoy doing the most and I've had the most success with. But I'm open to all jobs and all genres.

In Hollywood it's really tough to change genres; you have to re-prove yourself.

I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well.

I've been fortunate to work with artists that are at the top of their respective genres. That allowed me to learn from them and their success.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

Everyone comes to L.A. to accomplish goals, and sometimes it's hard to find a genuine person in the middle of all that.

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

Losing has nothing to do with geography.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

I'm already the first Georgian to play in the Finals, but I also want to be the first to be part of an NBA title.

We really want to be successful in America, we really want to try it. There are not so many German bands who get the chance to come to America to play.

Every good German team has strong leadership in the side.