David Friedman Quotes

I've never had a plan for any of this: there was never a plan for, 'Right, I must get on the TV,' 'Right, I must have my own show,' 'Right, I must be a movie star.' I don't think like that. I haven't ever had that sort of interest.

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

I don't want to compare myself to anyone else, but there's Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I'll be able to compete with them.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

I had in mind a long career.

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

I trust that the time may never come when the love of fame shall cease to be the sovereign passion of public men.

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

I'm very career-driven.

I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career.

I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

I didn't want to be the 40-year-old still on MTV doing 'Real World.' I loved the show. I loved the people on it, but I had a different set of goals.

I was that sort of obnoxious girl, I remember being 10 at careers things where people were talking about becoming secretaries and I said I don't want to be a secretary, I want to have a secretary, and people would sort of look at me slightly perplexed.

I guess the ultimate thing is that you want to keep working, you know, with the best.

I'm very much focused on my career.

Talk about full circle, I never saw this coming. It wasn't like I said, 'Someday, I want to be the head coach at the University of Memphis.'

When I was a young girl, I used to dream about what I would be when I grew up. I thought that I wanted to be a nurse, then a teacher, even a pilot at one point.

I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.

I'm very career-minded.