I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

My drive is other people’s success.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘