Tony Gilroy Quotes

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the 'best' in your chosen field, whatever it is.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

I love working with Oscar winners.

Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.

Cristiano deserved to win everything he's won in his career.

I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.

I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued - merit.

If you play well, then you make yourself a great name and the money comes on its own. You earn money for what you did.

You can be successful without learning music, but success has nothing to do with quality.

If you're really good at doing what you do, good things will come.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.