Lance Burton Quotes

This is a great time in our lives and careers.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.

I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s.

My life has been very full.