There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.