Quotes About Success

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

It's never OK to lose a game.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.

One must always attempt to make good films, even if you fail it is ok. It is a journey, you have both good and bad days.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

All my life, I've been winning, ok?

I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.

I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it.

It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

I was a fan myself, and I know what it's like. If someone comes out of the blocks and scores 31 goals in one season, then you think, 'OK, was that a one-off, or will he do it again?'

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

Around the world, I am known as a great musician. But in America, I am known as the cuchi-cuchi girl. That's okay because cuchi-cuchi has taken me all the way to the bank.

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition.

As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.