Unjustified Success Quotes

To call someone “privileged” is to say that his or her successes are undeserved. It’s a personal insult posing as social critique.

Any time someone achieves success before they've earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Any time that you get big titles or head jobs at a young age, there's going to be that factor. 'He didn't pay his dues.'

Tanushree Dutta became Miss India as she slept her way to the top.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Nobody likes tainted victories.

In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I could offer, it seemed to me, almost, that my father had got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son.

Getting that debut film is definitely harder than someone who has got a known last name. I mean some star kids don't even audition.