Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

The best way to improve your team is to improve yourself.

Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.

You have to learn and keep learning.

I just try to take the best opportunities that I can get.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I'm always working on new projects.

I'm always learning. I have to.

I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.

You have to look at your situation, and 'how do I make the best of my situation every single night?' That's what I looked to do.

I'm always looking to learn and am never happy with how I am going. I think once you get comfortable with what you are offering it is dangerous territory to be in.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

My advantage is my skill so I have to use it.

It's great to just keep going and throw new stuff out there.