"Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you."

“There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.”

“I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.”

“We no longer live life. We consume it.”

Source : Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford (2008). “Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century”, p.41, Penguin

“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”

“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”

“Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.”

“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.”

“When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.”

Source : "Face Time | Jordana Brewster". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. June 11, 2012.