Success quotes

“I may be a beginner at some things, but I've got a black belt in shopping!”
Shelley Lee Long - Phyllis Nefler

“8 hours ago I was lunatic at the state asylum. Right? Now I gotta a yacht, I met a nice lady. I'm proud to be an American.”
Richard Pryor - Dr. Eddie Slattery

“There was a farmer who had a lot of fields, and he kept all of the birds and creatures away from his crops with traps and fences. He was very successful... but he was very lonely. So, one day, he stood in the middle of his fields to welcome the animals. He stayed there from dawn to dusk, with his arms outstretched, calling to them. But, not a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Elizabeth Perkins - June Ellis

“All I think is if you can find work, stay healthy, find somebody to share it with, you're the ultimate success.”
Dick Clark - Himself

“I think all you need is a small taste of success, and you will find it suits you.”
Diane Frankin - Monique Junot

“There is nothing to understand. Only this: I am a man who could have been great, but was not.”
James Cromwell - William Randolph Hearst

“- Louise Watson: I'm going on tour this year until I get a record contract, then I'm going to make a video. Then they're going to make a video of us and we're going to be famous. Then Mommy's going to come back and live with us. And when I grow up I'm going to do solo projects and get married to someone famous but I'm not sure who exactly.
- Mr....” (continue)(continue reading)
Elizabeth Pritchard - Louise Watson
Earl Pastko - Mr. Skin (a.k.a. Satan)

“Sometimes the best are also the worst. It's really sad.”
Tchéky Karyo - Insp. Richard

“Instant gratification takes too long.”
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“A great day comrades, we sail into history!”
Sir Sean Connery - Marko Ramius

- Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun: If I didn't know better, I'd be bursting with admiration. I thought I'd come here and find you on your knees; instead you're ready to turn adversity into triumph.
- Mayor John Pappas: Oh, it's just a reflex, an old habit of mine. But it's still good to hear you say it... the way you say it, too. "Adversity into... (continue)(continue reading)
John Cusack - Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“- Clifford Anderson: Would you like me to explain?
- Sidney Bruhl: What, that you're a lunatic with a death-wish?
- Clifford Anderson: I've got the same wish you have, Sidney - a success wish!”
Christopher Reeve - Clifford Anderson
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“- Jim Hardy: Were you happy?
- Linda Mason: Yes.
- Jim Hardy: Then your father was a very successful man.”
Bing Crosby - Jim Hardy
Marjorie Reynolds - Linda Mason

“You are a beautiful girl with great potential. I'm not going to see your future as some nothing girl in a nothing factory in a nothing town!”

Susan Sarandon - Adele August

“I passed it, Daniel. I passed my subject in a regular school with real tests and regular teachers. I did it, Daniel. I love Polytechnic School! I love my teachers! I love everybody, Daniel!”
Juliette Lewis - Carla

“There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.”
Gina Gershon - Cristal Connors

“The operations seems to be a success. But the doctor died.”
David Warner - Dr. Alfred Necessiter

“It was great the way her mind worked. No guilt, no doubts, no fear. None of my specialities. Just the shameless pursuit of immediate gratification. What a capitalist.”
Tom Cruise - Joel

He called us "the bungled and the botched". We get teased. We sometimes get close to greatness, but we never get there. We're the expendable masses. We get pushed in front of trains, take poison aspirin... get gunned down in Dairy Queens.

Jeff Bridges - Jack

“- Sue Creighton: You're happy, aren't you?
- Richard Blake: Every man is when his dream is materialized.”
Virginia Gilmore - Sue Creighton
Robert Young - Richard Blake

“I like psychotic people. They get things done.”
Faye Dunaway - Mrs. Dubrow

“Did you ever hear of a guy called Nietzsche? He had a name for us: the bungled and the botched. People who get close to greatness then fall short. You be a good kid, my Italian friend, say no to drugs.”

Jeff Bridges - Jack

“Success is fragile, Mr. Ledbetter.”
Colm Feore - Leppenraub

“- George M. Cohan: It'll be great as long as those critics don't start to eat off my leg.
- Sam Harris: Don't worry about the critics! You got a smash hit! It's in the air, kid! It's in the air! You can't stop anything that's in the air!”
James Cagney - George M. Cohan
Richard Whorf - Sam Harris

“- Archie Long: I'm tellin' ya, Harry...
- Harry Doyle: I know, I know. We could have got away with it.
- Archie Long: Did I say that before?
- Harry Doyle: Every day for thirty years.”
Kirk Douglas - Archie Long
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle