Richard Madden Quotes

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

I don't know if I'll ever be as good as I was when I started Kogi, but I strive for that.

Obviously winning is what's most important, but I need to show people that I've improved.

As long as every tournament, every year, you're getting better and better, that's all that matters.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

Really, who's the best at what they do? There's always room for improvement.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.