Quotes About Success

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

You work for whatever you get in life.

If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work

The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.