Quotes About Success

It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.

I'm not opposed to success.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

If I die and am worth $50 million as opposed to $3 billion, it is really not important.

I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here.

The Senate, as opposed to the House, has been less successful in advancing some of the legislation that I think are important to Hoosiers.

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

Having a performance goal is really fun because it gives you something to work for in every single session. As opposed to just thinking, 'Okay, I want to have abs,' you can build your way up through having performance goals to get abs and to get stronger all over!

When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who you're the offspring of. I feel like a lot of actors, artists, or musicians who come from famous fathers or mothers all deal with the same thing.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

I don't know why my success has been greater in XFINITY cars than it has been in Cup cars. It's the exact opposite for Jimmie Johnson.

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.

I like finishing the games by dominating the opposition.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

The more I get better, the opposition has to get better.

When I was in my heyday, of course I had those who hated me. They were supposed to hate the opposition. But it's good, though. It feels good.

I want to be a combination of P. Diddy and Oprah.