Ethan Suplee Quotes

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

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'

If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family. That was always a goal of mine. Now that I'm doing that, I think we have this idea, "Once that's achieved, all complaints will leave and I will be happy and be filled!" And I didn't have that.

I want to have it all.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

I'm living the dream.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

I'm living my dream now.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

There's nothing like success.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.