Success quotes

“Mike Nichols is the greatest director ever in films. Why? Because he never had a failure.”
Joseph Edward Levine On Mike Nichols

“I can't win working with Welles. If the picture's a hit he will get the credit. If it's a flop I'll be blamed.”
Carole Lombard On Orson Welles

“The actor who thinks too much is troubled by one ambition: to be great. This is a terrible obstacle and it carries with it the risk that his playing may be deprived of much of its truthfulness.”
Michelangelo Antonioni

“What the star-system represents is a typical sickness in our society — competition, competition success-oriented.”
Jane Seymour Fonda

“The person who says it can't be done is always interrupted by the one who just did it!”

Mark Rolston - Chief Dennis Wilson

“Only the first picture of a cycle really succeeds. All the imitators dwindle.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“The best films are best because of nobody but the director.”
Roman Polanski

“There's a plan in everything and I love it when a plan comes together.”
Liam Neeson - Hannibal

“A picture is made a success not on a set but over the drawing board.”
Cecil Blount DeMille

“To be a success an actress must have the face of Venus, the brain of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory or Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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Ethel Barrymore

“There's winners and there's nothing else.”
Paul Gleason - Wayne Hisler

“- Carl: I have this great job, and this great office, and this great family, and this great house...
- Dr. Green: How does this make you feel?
- Carl: Empty.”
Paul Reiser - Carl
Reba McEntire - Dr. Green

“There are two types of people in the world: The people who naturally excel at life. And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.”
Burt Lancaster

“My name's Louden, Louden Swain. Last week I turned 18. I wasn't ready for it. I haven't done anything yet. So I made this deal with myself. This is the year I make my mark.”
Matthew Modine - Louden Swain

“- Honey Daniels: Haven't you seen my hip-hop class? They love it.
- Mrs. Daniels: But hip-hop can't take you the places where ballet can.”
Jessica Alba - Honey Daniels
Lonette McKee - Mrs. Daniels

“It was a huge success and I got an Oscar for it, though I don’t think it made an enormous difference in my career.”

Alec Guinness

“I can get you anything, you just have to talk to me, you have to trust me. You can trust me, 'cause I'm your priest, I'm your shrink... I am your main connection to the switchboard of the soul. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious. You say it, you think it, you can have it.”
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero

“I have long learned, that a man may give offense, and he may still succeed!”
Paul Giamatti - John Adams

“- Christian Grey: The key to my success has been in identifying talented individuals and harnessing their efforts.
- Anastasia Steele: So you're a control freak?
- Christian Grey: Oh, I exercise control in all things, Miss Steele.”
Jamie Dornan - Christian Grey
Dakota Johnson - Anastasia Steele

I'd like to make a toast. To "Good Vibrations", Brian's pocket symphony to God. And the biggest selling single the Beach Boys ever had. Ever!
Erin Darke - Marilyn Wilson

“I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.”
Heath Ledger

“I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“The bigger the picture, the bigger the ticket, the better.”
Burt Lancaster

“Actually I never felt I would succeed on the screen. This I must face, I'm not the greatest beauty in the world.”
Jennifer Jones