Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I’m just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can. – Shawn Ryan
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. – Twyla Tharp
If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We’re under a huge obligation to be successful. – Toby Young
After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It’s not a cat you can put back in the bag. – Seth Green
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. – Thomas Kuhn
People who are successful should never forget that it’s 90 per cent luck. You’ve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years – ‘Blankety Blank,’ the talk show, when I was winning every award going. – Terry Wogan
You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. – Steve Garvey
Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not. – Sid Haig
Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me. – Teri Garr
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. – Thucydides
Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine. – Tabatha Coffey
Student loan debt is the reason I don’t advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college. – Vivek Wadhwa
I turned down ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Spider-Man,’ two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don’t need my ego to be reminded. – Steven Spielberg
The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren’t sure why, and they still aren’t sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they’ve never been sure. It just works. It just does. – Terry Wogan
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. – Vincent Bugliosi
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. – William E. Gladstone
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them… a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn’t really matter who it is. – Sean Covey
Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has. – Stef Wertheimer
After the comedy boom of the ’80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented. – Scott Aukerman
In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats. – Thomas E. Mann
So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference. – Virginia Foxx
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity. – William Hurt
My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional. – Tess Gerritsen
