Varun Tej Quotes

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

Ultimately, I'm here to fight the best. I'm not here to stay in and get a couple paychecks. I'm here to do my best while I can and while I'm fresh and make a name for myself.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

I knew the pressure would be huge. I knew Manchester United was a massive club and a big challenge for me. Hopefully I'm proving to people that I can rise to the challenge.

Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.

There's work for everybody, and I believe every actor gets what he/she deserves. Honestly, I just want to work as long as I can and do great films and act with every good actor around.

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.

I always wanted to do good work and play strong parts.

I'm focused on being the best, making history.

I want to be remembered as the greatest quarterback who ever played. You have to go out and prove it first, and then you have to go out and work hard.

I want to be regarded as a world-class midfielder.

If you're not ambitious, there's no point in playing football.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

That's my goal: to be on the field as much as possible so I can make as big of an impact as possible.

I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.

I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.

In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

I love competing against the best.

As long as I do a good job and do it professionally and people see the quality, and see who I really am, then I think that's all you can do in football.

My goal simply was to have an impact, to try to make a contribution and help the team win. I wasn't thinking, 'I want to play well, so I start the next game.' But every kid's dream is to play in the World Cup. Watching at home with your parents when you're 10 years old, you never think you'll be there in the future.