EJ Johnson Quotes

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day, I'm going to have my own star.'

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

In the presenting area, there's nothing that really sets me apart from anyone else. It's something I enjoy but I was never going to set the world on fire.

Yes, you can do it. You can dream about being on the cover of magazines; you can dream about being in a film.

For most of my career, I've known what it's like to be in the audience and to enjoy what I'm seeing but still have the ambition to say, 'I can do that, I know I can do that. And I want to do that, and I can't wait for that to happen.'

I've always known I was going to be a big star, so I need a big stage and a big platform.

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.