Quotes About Success

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I'd never work again. So I'm going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn't let me do.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

I had to work from a young age.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

I know how teams work. I've been doing this for 30 years.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).

It's fun as a coach to work with somebody that has power and that has potential to achieve, really, anything that he wants to achieve. It's just a question of time and how much work they put into it.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.