Quotes About Determination

I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from hip-hop, that's my background, but I'm not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.

'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.

Patrick Swayze

I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.

I'm always gonna do my own thing. I wanna be something - whether I'm 19 years old working at a pet store, or I'm 19 years old with a No. 1 record - I wanna be the biggest I can be to my crowd, no matter what my crowd is.

You want to be as successful as possible. You wanna have the strongest legs to stand on as possible for every album that you're doing.

A lot of designers, they did tell me no. They didn't really wanna work with me.

When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

You don't grow up saying you wanna play in the CFL.

I really - I just wanna sing. And I wanna show people that I can sing.

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

Lil Wayne'll make you wanna jump up, get three jobs, write a song, and do a movie!

I hate that number. I hate the number four. I just wanna, like, cut it in half and kill it. I hate it. I've been fourth so many times.

Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

I'm not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully's gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That's just not me. I wanna fight - let's go! I mean, I'm gonna stand up for myself. That's just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in.

I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.

It's not like you reach a point with your acting where you're like, 'I'm great! That's it!' You're constantly having to go,'That sucked. I wanna do that better.'

No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.

I know that with my spinal condition I can never be full time again - I just can't do that, but I do wanna be full time, and I don't want to retire.

I just went up to my mom one day and said, 'I wanna be on TV. I wanna be a superstar!' Since I know this is my passion, and I feel like God chose this career for me, I just knew I was ready to do it.

I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.

If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills.