Jim Sturgess Quotes

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

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

There's a drive, there's a hunger inside of me that says, 'I know what I can do and I'm going to get it done.'

All of a sudden, my picture's in the paper, or I'm making a music video, and it's still the most surreal experience. I thought you could learn, and you would acclimatise, but I really haven't.

I understand the New York media is a lot more magnified than most markets, but I'm up for that challenge. I'd definitely be suitable, and I'd be primed for a market like that.

My dream when I was younger was that my parents could watch me on television.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

Once you achieve a goal and you are on that high, you have to consciously pull yourself in to say, 'I need to have the same hunger and desire as when I had nothing.' That's the hardest thing to do in life. That is getting challenged every single day once you win titles.

Always, I'm a competitor. Growing up, it's the same thing. I always wanted to compete and show how good I am. I did it in college to get the No. 1 pick, and now that I'm here, I'm going to keep getting better to prove I'm one of the best guards and players in the league. It's a long, slow grind, so I'm just taking my time every day.

An actor's journey is never fulfilled. We always look for greener pastures, better roles, better creativity. We all want to do good work.

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.

Getting a script and being like, 'Oh, yeah, I can do this in my sleep.' Who wants to do that? So, finding something that is a real challenge and is going to take all of you, I think, is more rewarding by the end of it.

I can excel in any situation, and like I've said, I'm not pro-WWE or anti-ECW - I'm pro-Edge. I don't care about promotions; I care about myself, plain and simple.

You've got to do what's best for you and what you want to accomplish in your career.

Just having the hunger to continue to learn motivates me.

To go from not being recognised at all to literally, the next day, having people stop you in the street was very, very weird. I had to buy myself a great baseball cap.

I look at every promo I do as a command performance to do better than I did the previous week if not deliver the best promo of my life.

From Day 1 since I was in middle school, it's just to get better every day and not settle for anything, try to get better, try to improve, and try to stay hungry. That's not going to change.

I'm always focused on constantly developing.

You always want to play at the highest level possible and make the most of your career, and I felt like I did everything I could.

I always question whether people are going to know who I am, and I'm always blown away by the love and reaction I receive.

Living in L.A. has been really good for me as a creator and musician.

In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.