A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.