I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

When you're a famous successful person at 16 years old the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner but not both and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great how famous or successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success talent.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

When I was growing up I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

I wanted to be successful not famous.

Until he lost all his money my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

It sounds cliche but success is your friends your family what you do and if you're happy when you wake up.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.

Everything I have my career my success my family I owe to America.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts the opponent's pressure and the temporary failures.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family friends and coworkers and even strangers you meet along the way.