Quotes About Success

I really enjoyed my time in Germany but didn't actually win anything.

Money comes and goes. But when you look back on your career, you have be able to answer to yourself, 'Did I make the most of my time on earth?'

I knew Jurgen Klopp from my time in Germany.

A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn't ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.

When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the one out of a million scientists, but there were 999,999 other scientists who were not as brilliant but who just do great science, as well.

I think there's been a myth that QBs makes the WRs but it works hand and hand. QBs need good WRs to throw to in order to be great and WRs need good QBs to throw to them in order to be great.

Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn't selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn't selling out. Why can't black people make money?

What was important for 'Legacies' to actually be a successful show is that we had to introduce new mythology.

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

And I wouldn't take on such a big thing if I didn't think I could nail it.

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

It's OK if you fail a few times. Just keep getting back up until you nail it.

I didn't want 'Hotel Transylvania' to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that.

For every 100 times you can nail a big move, it's that 101st time where you over-rotate and it can end your career.

No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.