Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned.
In 1988, I earned something like £700,000. Yeah! I was earning 10 grand an hour opening shopping centres. Yeah! The most I earned in one day was 65 grand. I opened the Alton Towers fun ride in the morning, did a commercial in the afternoon and an appearance at a nightclub in the evening. Sixty-five grand in one day!
Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.
Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.
I've earned every stripe that I've gotten. I've earned every playing time.
Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.
I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
I will never stop improving until I stop my career because I think every day you can improve, every day you can do something new, and every day you can do something better.
Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.
Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.
If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.
Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day.