Tarja Turunen Quotes

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.

I'm not a perfect player.

Master your craft, be nice and stay humble.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.