Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

Being in a relationship doesn't mean you're successful. You are successful if you are happy.

I want to play well; only then can I be happy.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

I want to have it all.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

If a man does his best, what else is there?

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I'll take it. It's really good fun. But because I don't crave the attention or the buzz, it's not like I'm desperate for it.

I'm living the dream.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

I'm living my dream now.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.