Quotes About Success

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.

The more I work the happier I am.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

The pleasantest part of work is having done it.

You've gotta be dynamic in media. That's the only thing that's gonna work.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

Less so here, I've noticed. I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.