Gary Kemp Quotes

I certainly feel as if I've been blessed professionally and personally, but I've still got moves I'd like to make.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!

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.

When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.

The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.

I didn't really know what I was going to do with my life. I've taken every opportunity, pushed myself in ways I'm not sure I knew were even possible, I've made the best of my life and career. So yes, I do feel proud of myself.

Once you have conquered your profession and are standing at the summit, it is all very well to look back down the slope and indulge yourself with regrets.

I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today.

I still pinch myself when I see myself on 'Match of the Day' - it's at times like that you realise how far you've come.

My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.

I think I was always this person. If you see my early work, my first TV show called 'Shikast' and a lot of 'Sea Hawks.' I think I was dealing with a misplaced definition of success.

Being a part of 'Chasing Life' has been the greatest thing I've done, both personally and professionally.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.