Quotes About Determination

I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.

If your first response is, 'I can't do this,' then that is exactly where God wants you to be.

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.

I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

People with ambition want Paolo Di Canio.

I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.