Chelsea Handler Quotes

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

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 on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

Success hasn't changed me at all. I'm still the same cocky, arrogant guy I've always been. The only difference now is that I'm busy all the time.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

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.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

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.

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

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.

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?