You can never be comfortable with your success you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
Without Arthur's voice I never would have enjoyed that success.
I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man a great role model.
The secret of our success is that we never never give up.
Without an open-minded mind you can never be a great success.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself prisoner of style prisoner of reputation prisoner of success etc.
Never mind what others do do better than yourself beat your own record from day to day and you are a success.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.