Quotes About Success

Playing at the highest level really is something special for me.

That's all I ever wanted to do is win and build something special.

I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

Obviously everybody, if you're playing in the league, you've got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

I had a somewhat charmed life. I was brought up at the BBC. I did meet so many people cleverer than myself in those years. Often, I was slapped down and made to feel not good enough.

Being in the Hall of Fame is where any player wants to be at the end of his career. It's somewhat of a last step for a player in terms of their career, and it's a place where you'll always be remembered for what you accomplished.

Somewhat selfishly, perhaps, I like to think that the best people sometimes take a few goes to get a job.

My feelings towards Manchester City will never change; I'm eternally grateful to them as a football club. They took me as a 19-year-old boy from Shrewsbury Town, took somewhat of a punt on me, and I've had some fantastic times.

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

I'm super comfortable with TV, especially in my situation where I pretty much have 100% freedom. That's the ideal, and I've been fortunate in TV to have pretty much everything I've done be at least somewhat successful.

You have to be confident to be successful... I am somewhat confident.

There is a somewhat different struggle when one comes from a film family. If you don't work hard enough or are not talented, you won't make it.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

Always dress like you're going somewhere better.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

At the end of the day, if you want to go somewhere you can make it happen.

You cannot deliver to your maximum if you're thinking 'if I do an error, it might close a door to somewhere' or whatever.

Number one is somewhere I always believed I would be.

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.