John Otway Quotes

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.

I'm fantasizing about being the best superstar I can be and improving.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

There was an interview with me when I was nine years old. They showed it on the local news and I said: 'I want to win the Melbourne Cup.' My friends used to tease me and make fun of what I said. So, yeah, it was pretty funny I did win it in the end.

We were all just taught to work as hard as we could, use these opportunities to advance, and just really appreciate all that we had.

I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

I would definitely like to continue my career in Hollywood, work hard and do my best.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.