Mark Cuban Quotes

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.

I have a niece now, and it makes me want to be better for her, just to show that there's a big wide world outside Toxteth, and you can imprint yourself in any one of those places as long as you do the hard work and have the desire.

England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream.

My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.