Quotes About Success

You can be in films and have a lot of dignity.

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.

I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.

I've been very lucky to debut with Yashraj films, then being directed by Karan Johar and now Amol Gupte.

I have directed Amitabh in four films - 'Kaalia,' 'Shahenshah,' 'Main Azad Hoon' and 'Major Saab' - and we have always been hand-in-glove.

I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such an early age.

I'm one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

I learned to get what I wanted through any means necessary, and sometimes that means you have to get your hands dirty.

I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player.

If you see films which have been successful over the last 10 years, the women in them have been in their 20s. 'The Dirty Picture' and 'English Vinglish' are two I can think of. But there are very few good roles for women in their 30s.

Some people might think that what I've done before made it easier for me to get jobs, but it was actually a disadvantage. I had to work even harder.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.