Frankie Shaw Quotes

On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on 'Superwoman.' I'm a huge workaholic. My hobby is 'Superwoman.'

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

I've always dreamt of being a footballer. You only get one shot at a career like this, and I want to be the best professional I can. Anything I can do that means I can get the best out of my ability is what I'll try and do.

You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job... whether they like me as a person or not!

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.

For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we've all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.

Everybody makes a decision about where they want their career to go. If I really want something, I put a lot of effort into it. If I don't want something, I won't.

Wanting to be better as an actor, model, and person in general motivates me to push myself.