Success quotes

“I was twenty-one and Platoon had just won Best Picture and grossed $100 million. Suddenly you're not paying for meals or drinks. You don't drive any more. You get success. The more money you make, the less people want you to spend. It's very bizarre.”
Charlie Sheen

“You don't become a rock star for no reason.”
Kim Kardashian

“You can't turn back the clock, kid. But you can wind it up again.”
Chris Cooper - Smokey

“I always thought I had to be rich to own the stars.”
Robin Wright - Moll Flanders

“In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.”
Dennis Dugan

“When Kipling said 'Treat failure and success the same, they are both impostors', he could not have been living in Hollywood.”
Lily Tomlin

We're absolutely stupid to be embarked in a business where our face is connected with our accomplishments. When you get it from morning to night, it's no longer wonderful. No dear public ever did anything for me, and a few people in our industry have the courage to say, "Oh, my dear public, I'd kick 'em if I could".

Cary Grant

“Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.”
Victoria Principal

“- Tallahassee: My mama always told me someday I'd be good at something. Who'd a guessed that something'd be zombie-killing?
- Columbus: Probably nobody.”
Woody Harrelson - Tallahassee
Jesse Eisenberg - Columbus

“- Cruz Ramirez: Can I ask you something? What was it like for you, when you showed up to your first race? How did you know you could do it?
- Lightning McQueen: I don't know, I... I just never thought I couldn't.
- Cruz Ramirez: I wish I knew what that felt like. Good luck, Mr. McQueen.”
Cristela Alonzo - Cruz Ramirez
Owen Wilson - Lightning McQueen

“There's something inherently disappointing about success.”
Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert

“- Press Maravich: Kennedy will build houses on the moon by 1970 and you know why, cause he's got...
- Press Maravich, Helen Maravich: Confidence.”
Nick Benedict - Press Maravich
Millie Perkins - Helen Maravich

“- August Nicholson: If this place is worthy, she'll be successful in her quest.
- Mrs. Clack: How could you have sent her. She is blind.
- Edward Walker: She is more capable than most in this village. And she is led by love.”

Brendan Gleeson - August Nicholson
Cherry Jones - Mrs. Clack
William Hurt - Edward Walker

“All good things come to those who wait.”
Robert De Niro - Sam

“- Steve Jobs: What's your resume?
- John Sculley: You're issuing contradictory instructions, you're insubordinate, you make people miserable, our top engineers are fleeing to Sun, Dell, HP, Wall Street doesn't know who's driving the bus, we've lost hundreds of millions in value and I'm the CEO of Apple, Steve, that's my resume!
- Steve Jobs: But...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Jeff Daniels - John Sculley

“- Dr. Emmett Brown: Don't worry, Marty. Assuming we succeed in our mission, this alternate 1985 will be changed back into the real 1985, instantaneously transforming around Jennifer and Einie. Jennifer and Einie will be fine, and they will have absolutely no memory of this horrible place.
- Marty McFly: Doc... what if we don't succeed?
- Dr....” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly

“Success can't be forced.”
Loretta Young

They won't soon forget the name "Oskar Schindler" around here. "Oskar Schindler", they'll say, "everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did what no one else did. He came with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, of money. All the riches... (continue)(continue reading)
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

“You've achieved a great deal of success in your creative and artistic field. You've traveled a great deal. You have influential friends. You've dated a bevy of bright and beautiful woman. Yet, with all this, you never had a lasting relationship.”
Héctor Elizondo - Martin

“- Pinocchio: I'm going to school.
- J. Worthington Foulfellow: School. Ah, yes. Then perhaps you haven't heard of the easy road to success. No? I'm speaking, my boy, of the theater!”
Dickie Jones - Pinocchio
Walter Catlett - J. Worthington Foulfellow

“Why is it that when someone's successful in one field, they think they know about everything?”

Kevin Kline - Mack

“Sometimes when I think of how good my book is going to be, I can't breathe.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

“It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.”

Holly Hunter

“- Ollie: I just read about this guy, right, who invented Instagram. He sold it for $400 million. Now he was 26 years old. You guys want to make real money or do you want to live and die in the valley?
- Cole: We gotta get out of here.”
Shiloh Fernandez - Ollie
Zac Efron - Cole

“- D.H.: I believe, umm, that certain people in life are meant to fall by the wayside; to serve as warnings to the rest of us; signs posts along the way.
- Igby: To where?
- D.H.: Success.”
Jeff Goldblum - D.H.