Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Penn

The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

Sean Penn

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Lincoln Chafee

Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?

Liam Neeson

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

Liam Neeson

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

Les Brown

Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

Les Brown

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Leni Riefenstahl

Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words.

Leo Baekeland

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Lee Iacocca

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Laurie David

A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.

Laurie Colwin

Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.

Laura Bell Bundy

What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.

LaToya Jackson

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

Laura Bush

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

Larry Bird

Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.

L. Ron Hubbard

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

L. Ron Hubbard

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

L. Ron Hubbard

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Terry Wogan

People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

Terry Gilliam

I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.

Terry Eagleton

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Tennessee Williams

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee Williams

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Randall Munroe

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.