Quotes About Success

I think I've got some more big plays left in me.

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

I don't try to please anybody. I try to win.

I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.

The films I've done with all my heart have gone on to become huge hits. When I set out to do a 'mass masala' intending to please B and C centres, it bombs.

I race to win, not to please people.

To all the young generation in the Philippines, please dream high.

It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.

The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

I don't think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there's a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.