Quotes About Success

There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.

I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.

If you are not diverse, you are saying, 'I don't want to be successful.'

The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

As a reggaeton act, I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

You don't go into a game expecting to lose.

Everybody's expecting a lot from me.

Everyone expects goals, and I want to score them, but most of all, I want to contribute to a successful team.

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

I had the best season, probably of my career, when I first arrived and then the second year I was still top scorer. I then went through a little stage of... when you have set that bar so high, then everybody expects it every week that goes by.

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

I like success, but I don't believe in it at the expense of other stuff. It's more important to stay in my skin.

The expense of a screen test is one reason why it's difficult to crash Hollywood.

I did have an expensive divorce, but I'm now better off than I was. So I don't need to work, I just love it.

The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.

I'm always around people who want to drink very expensive champagne. But only when it's a celebration of success.

It is nice to be the most expensive Dutchman, and it is nice for my agent and for Ajax. But it does not matter to me whether I cost €5m or €150m or €200m. I just need to make sure that I do my own thing.

I think, at one point, I'd been in the five most expensive movies ever made - not that I had large parts in them. 'Apocalypse Now' was one.

I want to be the most expensive full-back ever because when you reach that it shows that you are one of the best full-back of the world.

I still have my feet on the ground; it's just that I wear expensive shoes.

My desire is always to play, and that will never change, I've experienced too much and had too much success.