Quotes About Success

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

Winning in Berlinale, in Hong Kong, and then to get such an amazing response, reviews, and now to be India's official entry for Oscars... My mother is right up there and keeping a check on me. Her blessings are always going to be with me, I know.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

I was going to be a comedian but then also winning Oscars and directing movies and creating my own charities and saving the world. The more I've let go of that... I see more access to possibly being able to have something like that.

I really don't think about the Oscars.

If you were an actress in a film that had been nominated for five Oscars, including one for yourself, you would expect to have scripts landing on the door step.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

The fact I'm blind has been a great help to my career. If I'd been sighted I'd have played baseball and got into trouble like all other kids on my block.

I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?

Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.

Only commit to things you know you can accomplish because they're incredibly important to you. Otherwise, you set yourself up for continued failure.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.