Maxine Peake Quotes

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

I have never been motivated by money.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.

I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I've never been ambitious.

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

My ambition is to be happy.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.