Quotes About Success

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

It is kind of nice for when people appreciate what you have done, but I would not base my career on awards because they are mostly popular awards and not talent-oriented awards.

I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.

There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

I am genuinely happy that other actors are entering the industry and gaining popularity. There are enough opportunities in the business for everybody.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

I am happy judging shows and making films. It is a good thing to do a film and then take up a show, considering it also keeps your popularity alive.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Popularity matters a lot, as at the end of the day, the love of your audiences can make you win.

I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.

I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.