Success Trade-off Quotes

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have a successful life, but you can't have both. You have got to make up your mind at the start which of the two you are going to have.

Sex has been getting us in big trouble since the Garden of Eden. Most of us can’t have a happy, successful life without it, but you have to control this powerful force or it will control you, and maybe cause you to lose the things in life that are most important to you. In today’s world, perhaps more than ever before, sex is being used as a kind of currency. Some people barter sexual favors for a push up the ladder to success.” While that might “work in the short term,” he warned, “in the long term, sexual exploitation almost always leads to disaster.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

You're damned in success a little bit.

I still love being creative. I still love the aspects of working together with great, talented people. But it's a weird dichotomy; I'm being blessed with more opportunities, but I'm going to be taking less of them.