Anna Neagle Quotes

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

I have to work my way up. There's nothing guaranteed in this league.

I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

You're always working to try and climb that ladder.

I was 22, and getting into a World Cup squad is what you dream about as a kid, so finishing third was fantastic.

My ambitions are just to keep working hard and, when I do get on, to make an impression.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

I don't take anything for granted. There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

I work every day like I was running for re-election and the race was tight. That's the only way I know how. That's what my mother taught me.

I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.

I want to win as many tournaments as I can.

I want to have a long career.

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.