There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.
I'm not good at anything else. I just don't have a talent for anything other than filmmaking. Luckily, it's worked out.
I believe success is delayed failure.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The benefit of hindsight is we only really talk about those things that did work out.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
I came to success very late in life.
I think I am going to be part of a success story at Lazio.
I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.
I'm taking it one fight at a time. But I always see myself being victorious.
If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.
I guess, at the beginning of any project, I always have the same hope, which is that it's going to be wildly successful and critically acclaimed, and it'll be a major thing.
By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly.
