If you’re successful in what you do over a period of time, you’ll start approaching records, but that’s not what you’re playing for. You’re playing to challenge and be challenged. – Lou Brock
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world – you’re insecure if you’re successful, you’re insecure if you’re not. A tightrope walk without a net. It’s a miracle I’m still standing! – Kabir Bedi
Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. – Lady Gaga
My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others. – Kevin Johnson
At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives. – Michael Leunig
I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that. – Michael Caine
The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you’re successful on top of that, then you’re way ahead of everybody. – Martha Stewart
If the world is telling you you’re successful, but you don’t feel it, you might as well have failed. – John Burdett
I think I find new idols every day – someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character. – Miranda Lambert
I’m realistic about my career as a novelist. I’m certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful. – M. J. Rose
The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are. – Louis D. Brandeis
Even if you’re improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure. – John Cale
I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It’s just very public when they fail. – Kevin Bacon
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death. – John Linder
I didn’t like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I’m trying to get back to. – Lulu
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. – Khaled Hosseini
And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I’ve done that. So I feel happy about doing that. – Missy Elliott
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
I intimidate a lot of men, because I’ve done a lot. I’m established. I’m successful. – LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible. – Kim Cattrall
For me to do a project – I have a pretty successful solo career, so – for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward. – Les Claypool
On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable. – Lee Rich
The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful. – Kathy Ireland
