Quotes About Success

I'd rather be a shooting star than a fading star.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

You can be known or be a star from anywhere - anywhere in the world.

I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

I always knew I would be a star someday. I didn't know when. I didn't know how it would look. I just had a feeling.

The businessman gets his name on a door. The star gets his name in lights. They both get their names on a parking space.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

Here I am: I'm a girl from the Dominican Republic. I wanted to be a star, but I really didn't know what that was or how I was going to be able to accomplish it.

I never wanted to be a performer, I never wanted to be Yo Yo Honey Singh, the rock star.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.'

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

I never felt like a pop star. I never ever.

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.