Cat Deeley Quotes

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

I want people to realize that they can dream big.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day, I'm going to have my own star.'

When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.

When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.

I can say Rookie of the Year is what I want to do.

Besides acting, I have tons of plans but there is time for it.

I'd rather be called a good actor than be labelled a good-looking guy. I have been working towards it all along, and I hope to be able to go far ahead, because that's my foremost goal.

People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?