Quotes About Success

Any club has more than enough comics, so if you're not there every night talking to the booker, you're not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

When people commend me on my success, I know I didn't just get it. I actually earned it.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

The films that I have done are commendable.

Since I came on the tour so young and I won my first match, I've had a lot of comments like 'You'll be a top player one day.' I got to the point where, as nice as it was to hear that, I almost stopped listening to it. I was almost putting added pressure on myself.

So one of the things that I learned in my old company, GSI Commerce that eBay bought in 2011, was we did a lot of things right, but we also did a lot of things wrong at that company. And so I've really learned focus is everything.

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

I want to balance commercial and off-beat roles.

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.