Quotes

I define success a little differently. My dream from day one was to act and stand on my own two feet. I'm literally living my dream after struggling really hard to get here and that in itself is success to me.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

I am constantly trying to improve my playing and hope to get more and more mental strength. I think these are two of the success keys.

Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.

I used to believe that you have to say yes to every opportunity that comes your way in order to succeed in life. Now I realize that the rarely-talked-about secret to success (and sanity) is recognizing when it makes more sense to say no.

I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

In 2001, I did some research and identified four characteristics that successful companies share. One, they aspire to be leaders in their businesses. Two, they have global potential. Three, they are innovative. Four, they display a ruthless focus on financial returns.

My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.

An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company's success framework.

I think that when people see that a successful person who has suffered and is a survivor of mental illness, and is still very successful, I think it gives them a lot of strength.

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

To be honest, I don't think I ever had thought I had to be successful. I just saw a need and I liked to be challenged, that's my personality.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.

It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.

Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.

I was born in the U.S., and that's who I rep. Although when the winter Olympics come around, I'm pretty partial to Norway's success and what they do.

Definitely I feel my kids played a big role in why I was so successful in fighting.

I think you learn more from your failures than your successes.

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.