Quotes

Success and failure is temporary. So don't let them get to you.

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

People use the word success often, I don't use that word.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.

For all its bluster, the BDS campaign is most notable, I think, for its lack of success. Trade is booming; tourism is soaring. The media campaign is full of sound and fury, but to the majority of Britain today, it signifies nothing.

I want to send a very strong signal to people who do think about making this journey - we will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success in the sense that I don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France that they can get to Britain and just get to stay.

After the success of 'Heyy Babyy,' 'Housefull' and 'Housefull 2' I was overly confident that 'Himmatwala' would set new records. Its failure was disheartening.

I have broken a lot of hearts, I have lied, I have cheated, I have deceived, like most of the guys do. But I was on television, I was getting successful, I was getting brasher. I was treating women very badly.

I worked with Salman even when he was not doing so well, so now that he is successful, people think I have an agenda.

We never tell our kids how to handle success, we never teach them what to do during times of failure. Someone should tell them to mellow down while they experience success so that they may have a long successful stint.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

How were we to know 'Highway' would be such a success? It is one of my proudest achievements.

The super success of '3 Idiots' has taught us that cost of making a film is not important at all; it's all about things going well at the script level.

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Free educational materials will, at minimum, prepare more people for college and allow them to be more successful once they get there. Most students want credentials that employers respect, and free educational materials alone will not do this.

You can't plan success with a creative field. So I enjoy it while it's here, and I know it won't be forever. Maybe one day I'll have to go back to flipping burgers, but for now I'm going to enjoy the cool things.