Quotes About Success

I wasn't the smartest in school - I was always sort of middle of the class - but when it came to football, I was always driven to be a success there.

Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It's hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

I never thought that 'Grease' would be a smash. I turned it down at first.

I planned for my first film 'Crook' - that it would be a smash hit and I would be an overnight sensation. You know how newcomers are, they live in this whole fairytale, like, 'Oh my God, everything's going to be so good and perfect.'

I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.

The finances of a smash hit do not affect the actors in any way shape or form, it's the attention that comes with it. If it's a financial hit, then a lot of people are seeing it.

Some of the prettiest music I've done was in films that really were not a smash. Your music fares as the film does.

Nahmir got smash hits.

My 'No Parlez' album in 1983 - which went quadruple platinum - changed my life. The funniest thing though is the pictures we shot for the cover were rubbish, so we had to use a set we'd done for Smash Hits magazine instead.

Anthony Joshua has smashed it, he's one of the biggest sportsmen in the world but when you talk about boxing careers I've done just as well as him.

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

I've been asked about the glass ceiling a lot, and I don't think of myself as some kind of crusader going around smashing glass. I don't feel like I had to - and that is a very, very strong flag showing the people around me made it, so I didn't have to.

I mean, look at Adele. She sings and she's not posh, posh, posh. But she's absolutely amazing. She's smashing it. She's global. I just think why change yourself? I'm going to stay as me.

I am just a young black man living my dream, people are trying to smear my reputation.

When I was making 'Satya', many people said that nobody would like to watch such dirty people. But, when the film worked, the same people said it was so real that they could actually smell it!

Winning is the deodorant of the game, it covers all bad smells.

When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.

A smile is better when you win.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that. If I want something, I'm going to get it. When people tell me that I can't do something, it just motivates me more. For me, it makes me smile, because I just want to prove everybody wrong.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.