Quotes

Attaching yourself to success and failure too much is not healthy and good for you. It is better to focus your energy in reinventing yourself as an actor with every film.

If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.

I've never watched 'Game Of Thrones', but I obviously know how huge it is and how the fans responded to it, and I only hope for similar success with 'The Witcher' because wow - that would be amazing.

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

I give the credit of my success to my wife Aakriti, who keeps me going in life and inspires me in various ways.

Failure and rejection are important. Otherwise, you won't value success.

Being adopted was my motivation to help others by first becoming successful.

When you become successful, it is not just money that makes you happy.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

I have friends who died being successful bohemians. Today, I see people my age who are gifted but who insisted on staying in this group, and it's beaten them so bad. They have to spend so much time on ego maintenance, they can't get any work done. They'd be very happy to sell out, but there are no buyers, and that hurts.

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

I'm quite comfortable being the husband of a woman who's a big celebrity. And of course a superstar's brother. It's not an enviable place to occupy but it's the reality. I'm very closely related to two very successful people and I accept that happily.

As for action, yes 'Wanted' was a success in the action genre. But not to the extent of 'Dabangg.'

I've enjoyed so little success as a professional player.

Success, you know, is a relative thing.

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.

Despite the apparent trappings of modest success in television and so on, I have always been an uneasy person. I can't change that. I can't change that part of my psychological makeup.

To be honest I would like to do more movies, I've been a victim of my own success in that sense, as if you have a TV character that really endures, it's really hard to get into film.

I was able to tour successfully and attract a fairly wide audience, but it was hard to assert myself as a stand-up because people were more familiar with me as a TV character.

I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.

Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.