Daniel Ricciardo Quotes

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

We try to make games we want to make for the sake of making fun games and not necessarily to make a profit.

After Fifth Harmony succeeds to the fullest of its capacity, one day we can go off and do our individual things.

I think that one of the things I'd learned from being so attentive to the careers of the people I've admired is the fact that they would say 'no' a lot. Early on, I took that as a cue to only work on things that I knew I would be passionate about.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago… The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.