Quotes About Success

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

Good scripts, which are apt for me, eventually come to me.

A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.

'EastEnders' changed everything. I was a jobbing actress living in Stepney, and I was on the dole at one point. Then people started to send me scripts, which was always my dream.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

If you don't score for a few games at Juve you are immediately under scrutiny.

There is always scrutiny and pressure from the media. I am always told that I have to win.

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.

All of us are in search of something or the other, be it dreams or success.

I was only 26 when I started my career. Those days I only wanted to work. When my films did not work, I didn't know what to do. But I never went to anyone for work. Work came in search of me.

Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.

I did not play my first full season until I was 21.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.

I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.