“Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'”

“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”

“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.”

“I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.”

“We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.”

“For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.”

“It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.”

“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”