Lucas Cruikshank Quotes

I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I think athletically I can be okay with any role, but I'm willing to go over and beyond for my work. My fan base is so strong and loyal, and they wanna see me evolve. I'm where I'm supposed to be and I want to challenge myself with the people that are doing it real big.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

It's kind of crazy to think I'm still 22 and going into my fifth season. Time has been flying by. I think it's about that time I really take the next step to the elite level.