What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.