Quotes About Success

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

There are two rules for sucess:1. Never tell everything you know.

In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the blame

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.