I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
Successful people breed success.