A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Without Arthur's voice I never would have enjoyed that success.

Once you have a lot of success you become a target in many ways.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very very different.

Real success is not on the stage but off the stage as a human being and how you get along with your fellow man.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife my three children some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

I believe success is preparation because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

My career started young and I was really ambitious and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture people start asking two questions which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

Which is - you know like check it out I'm pretty young I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book right?

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Anytime you play a team sport the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd which I talk about in the book but I had academic success so through that because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man a great role model.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded in touch in love connected emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

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.

I've had great success being a total idiot.