Quotes

I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

Cricket is a sport girls can play and be successful in irrespective of their background.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

I can't complain about the way I've been marketed because it's been so successful.

I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

I trained in theater. I loved Los Angeles, but I've found New York to be successful for me.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I just have to add words, and I can do films.' But also, my success as a model made me more confident about becoming an actress because, just in case I failed, I thought, 'Well, you know, if I failed as an actress, I can do another job.'

By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

I have received so many letters, messages, emails, testimonies of women whom I meet in international conferences, wherever it may be, who tell me, 'It's great that you have balanced life and work so successfully.' I now think I have underestimated that, the 'role model' aspect of my life, I must say.

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.