Quotes

Sometimes, growth isn't always equal to success. You may fall forward and continue to make some mistakes, but it's all about growth and really finding the lessons that needs to be learned in order to get to the next level.

I think Dr Dre really evolved and really is a great role model for young people that have had to survive and thrive against all odds. He was able to turn his life around and create an empire and become a successful family person.

I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.

The free market for mobile devices and wireless service has been a dramatic success.

Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will continue to be an American success story.

In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history.

Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.

I don't work for the commercial success of the film. I work to satisfy my producers who give me the money. I work to satisfy the director who has written a script for me. Of course, I have to satisfy the actor in me, but I want to satisfy them first.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'

The success of a film at the box office will ensure happiness to the entire unit, but individual awards are like vitamin shots that will help boost the morale of an actor.

I believe, for an actor, both the success of his film and awards are equally important.

A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

I believe failure sometimes teaches you more than success.

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.