Quotes About Success

If I'm aggressive, scoring, that's going to open things up for everyone else.

I'm very lucky. Most of my friends wait long times for jobs and also don't get the chance to work on 20 films, like I have, with someone like Scorsese. I love working for him. I just would never - I can't imagine working for anybody else.

Do I wish I was Martin Scorsese? Yeah. But am I really proud of the movies I've made and really happy that I get to keep making them? Yes.

When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a table for my Christmas. If I hadn't got that, then none of this would have happened.

Getting to work with acting royalty like Andrew Scott and Moe Dunford for me is incredible.

All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

I know Adam Scott pretty well and we talk about winning that first major, which of us will have the bigger party.

When I started on scout team, I wanted to be scout player of the week. So when I got that, it was, 'All right, what's the next goal?'

I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

If I had gotten the parts in 'Scream' or 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' I would not have been very good in them, and I would've squandered whatever success I had gotten because I wasn't ready for that sort of thing. So I feel grateful for all of the years that I have behind me trying to get traction and a career.

The first 'Scream' was great for me in some ways, but in others it was... a challenge.

I got so big in the Latin market, it was a bit like being Elvis Presley. The limousines, the screaming girls - stuff I wasn't used to.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

I see a lot of people who just want to get on the TV screens, no matter if there is talent or not.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

At the end of the day, if you're living by fear, you're gonna get screwed in Hollywood.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

Luckily for me, I get a lot of acting-oriented scripts.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.