In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? 1.22K
There’s that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commercials writers get all the success. 678
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school. 677
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it’s basically down to you and what you want or need. 648
I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up. 627
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. 611
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you. 620
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild. 649
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. 727
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. 626
When you’re around enormously successful people you realise their success isn’t an accident – it’s about work. 667
Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it. 649
I don’t think success arrives and you’re suddenly happy. It’s not like that. If people think that they’ll be very disappointed. 653
I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. 660
