Quotes About Success

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

I watched the Bulls growing up. To be part of an organization like that is great.

It feels great to have the chance to play with the Chicago Bulls.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

I'm not really into destiny, but it's funny - I bumped into a woman who told me about an audition, and now I have a BAFTA.

I've had a lot of bumps in the road, but I kept my head down and kept working.

I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.

Fame has become less and less important to me, it's more of a burden than anything else.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

I don't want the burden of the success or failure of a film entirely on my shoulders.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

I've seen a lot of people burn very brightly and very quickly, and I think you can become overindulgent sooo quickly in this business, and so I try not to fall into any of the trappings that would affect me very negatively.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

Nobody is ready to burn money just because you have a filmi lineage.

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.

I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.

I always believed that the bubble could burst tomorrow. You're only as good as your last record.