Quotes About Success

I've always said that as I've gotten older and come into my prime, when I turned 28 would be my best time.

My prime motivation is wanting to be happy. I'm not worried about fame. In this profession, it's not a question of if it ends, it's when. So it doesn't matter.

Joining Lazio at 26 years old, I'm in my prime.

The Champions League has been the prime objective of my career.

One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.

Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

When I did 'Goodtime Charley' that helped a great deal, but 'Dancin' was such a huge hit. It catapulted me in to being a consistent principal to count on.

When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.

When I became a principal at the Royal Ballet it was my childhood goal, a dream and I became it at 19. And then I said 'what's next?' and I set myself a different goal at 19 to become an actor.

My guiding principle and motivation was that I wanted to retire by the time I turned 35. There actually are two books that I bought and still have - Paul Terhost's 'Cashing In On the American Dream: How to Retire at 35' and Andrew Tobias's 'The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need' - that were my personal financial road map.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.