Malcolm Young Quotes

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.