Quotes About Success

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether live or pickup, coach in the gym or not.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

The Shining is my fourth picture with Jack Nicholson, or as he says, our fourth 'classic.'

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.

If we win, everybody gets a piece of the pie.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

Everybody wants to come out and win the gold, and sometimes it takes a personal best, sometimes it doesn't. But to be able to have all those pieces come together, it's a great feeling.