"I don’t think ‘Cocktail’ was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture." ― Elisabeth Shue Topic(s): Success More From Elisabeth Shue "My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them." "Every film is a crapshoot. It’s a mystery when a movie comes together. I’ve never been able to figure it out. I don’t know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there’s something about a character that you really want to experience." "I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can’t imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I’ve got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged." More In Success "For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."― Theodore Roosevelt "The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."― William Lloyd Garrison "I’m astonished by my success."― Danielle Steel