Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.
Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and the Academy is so intractable to this day.
It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
