Larry Dixon Quotes

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

I dreamed to be able to have these opportunities as a young kid. I've had the opportunity to run the best cars in the world.

All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star Trek,' and I can finally say I've done that.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

I've been very fortunate in my career.

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

I appreciate everything. I built my career from very humble beginnings. Every job I've had, every next rung on the ladder, I appreciate because I know where it started - I started doing Pac-Man vitamin commercials.

The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date.

I was fascinated by racing as a kid, but no way would I have thought I'd make it into Formula One from here, from being from Perth, racing on little local go-kart tracks, you know.

For me, I have a chance to race in F1, a chance I did not think I would have.

My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.

I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.

I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.