Quotes About Drive

I'm compulsive.

I have always maintained that my concentration is only on my career and on nothing else.

I want to move along and become the biggest star in WWE. I don't really care who it angers along the way, to be honest. It's no concern of mine, really.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.

I have a lot of confidence. I'm a competitor.

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.

I want to conquer everything that I do.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

I am immensely proud of our people. The way we have been persecuted, and our drive and our survival, is mind-boggling. I think that is part of the reason I continue to be so connected to the Holocaust, and why that has such a moving effect on me.

I remember my first acting class: I was like, 'That's it.' If I know that I want to do something then I'm going to do it and there's no stopping me, whether it's if I want to take a movie part or don't, or eat sushi for lunch or don't. There's always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that's it.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.

Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

I want to continue the sport of swimming. I'm not going to give up until I think it's reached where I want it to go.

For me, it's about swimming faster. Anything that's not pertaining to swimming faster is irrelevant to me.

If I was satisfied I wouldn't keep swimming.

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian, and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die.

I was always a very competitive little kid. I did swimming very competitively, downhill skiing very competitively. Everything was competition.