Eniola Aluko Quotes

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

I think, back when I was younger, I was a lot more confident about certain things that I would write, and I didn't need the band's blessing or agreement; I would just kind of fight for it 'cause I knew it was good. And then the problem with getting older, especially when there's some success involved, you have a different measuring stick.

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

If you're not a target, you're a failure.

We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.

I knew it was all or nothing.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough