“Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.”

“Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.”

“I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.”

“A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.”

“Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.”

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”

“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”

“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”

“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.”