Quotes About Success

Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

I'd like to continue to act and also produce.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.

I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf.

I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

A lot of people don't know a lot of records that I've written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman.

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

I always loved and secretly wanted to do 'Company.' It was produced on Broadway in 1970, and it's about a successful 35-year-old guy who's starting to think he should get married.

To have produced a product where I had total creative control and see it flourish is like watching a baby grow.