The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.