Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.
It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.
It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!
The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.
I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
Defeat may be victory in disguise.
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed
There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.
I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.
Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
