Tilda Swinton Quotes

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.

I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.

Success doesn't drive me away from home.

I'm getting to put my music out into the world the way that I envisioned and hoped it would be when I was little, and that is a total dream come true.

Like every one, I too enjoy commercial success but for me it is certainly not the end of world.

I do think I fulfilled my potential.

The best thing is being part of history and achieving something you've dreamed of.

I'm living out my dream, so there's nothing better than that.

I'm glad I'm with OVO; it's a dream come true.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.