Success quotes

“Obstacles make a better picture.”
Victor Fleming

“I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.”
Tom Shadyac

“People always think success in show business gives them the right to be moral political arbiters.”
Joel Schumacher

“We deliver, or we drown.”

Harrison Ford - Capt. Alexei Vostrikov

“All greatness comes from loss.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Old Ptolemy

“- Riggan: Fuck you!
- Young Birdman: No, fuck you, you coward. We grossed billions! You're ashamed of that? Billions!
- Riggan: And billions of flies eat shit every day! So what? Does that make it good? I don't know if you noticed, but that was 1992!”
Michael Keaton - Riggan
Benjamin Kanes - Young Birdman

“What is success? A soldier can reckon his success in victories, a merchant in money. But my world is insubstantial. I live in a beautiful, blinding, swirling mist.”
Charles Laughton - Rembrandt

“Some of you have only known success your entire life. But this year, your plebe year, you will know failure and failure is a far greater teacher than success.”
Scott D. Carson - Brigade Commander

“I'd rather fail doing my own thing, doing what I wanna do than doing that doing what someone else wants me to do and succeeding.”

Erika Christensen - Hannah Kingsley

“- James Bond: We don't make mistakes of that sort.
- Major Anya Amasova: You sound just like a Russian.”
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond
Barbara Bach - Major Anya Amasova

“Sometimes it feels like, no matter how much success I have, it's not gonna matter until I find the right guy.”

Anna Kendrick - Natalie Keener

“You ever read any Nietzsche? Nietzsche says there's two kinds of people in the world: people who are destined for greatness like Walt Disney... and Hitler. Then there's the rest of us.”

Jeff Bridges - Jack

“She's just got to believe that I'm successful until I am.”
Harold Lloyd - Harold - The Boy

“One minute you're standing in the wings, and the next minute you're wearing them.”

Art Carney - Dr. Bowers

“Our success depends on keeping our ability to keep our identity a secret.”

Lewis Wilson - Bruce Wayne

“- Griffin Mill: It lacked certain elements that we need to market a film successfully.
- June Gudmundsdottir: What elements?
- Griffin Mill: Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings. Mainly happy endings.”
Tim Robbins - Griffin Mill
Greta Scacchi - June Gudmundsdottir

“Late at night, when the demons come, do you see the rifle coming out of that window, or do you see Kennedy's head being blown apart? If you'd reacted to that first shot, could you have gotten there in time to stop the big bullet? And if you had - that could've been your head being blown apart. Do you wish you'd succeeded, Frank? Or is life too...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“He is my neighbor Nursultan Tuliagby. He is pain in my assholes. I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get a clock radio, he cannot afford. Great success!”
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat

“I began five years ago, in secret. Working all night, every night, right into the dawn. A thousand experiments. A thousand failures. And then, at last, the great, wonderful day.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“- Wilbur Turnblad: This is America, babe, you gotta think big to be big.
- Edna Turnblad: Big ain't the problem in this family, Wilbur.”

Christopher Walken - Wilbur Turnblad
John Travolta - Edna Turnblad

“- Khan: You are very successful.
- Jake Gittes: Oh, I can't complain.
- Khan: Does that mean you are happy?
- Jake Gittes: Who can answer that question off the top of their head?
- Khan: Anyone who's happy.”
James Hong - Khan
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“My mom reckons I'm going to be a star. And stars don't fall from the sky.”
Lou Diamond Phillips - Ritchie Valens

“You went toe-to-toe with evil, and you won.”
Forest Whitaker - Captain Jack Wander

“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.”
Harrison Ford

“Sometimes if you want to succceed, you have to do what they tell you.”
Joanna Levesque - Cassie Munro