Angie Martinez Quotes

I tend to pick projects that give me a sense of freshness. So my filmography, especially after hitting my 30s, has become a lot more diverse.

I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.

People think because there's only 24 hours in a day, we're just supposed to play our sport and then go home and think some more about our sport. They don't think that we should care about other things, but the reality is that you can be really good at what you do for a living and have other hobbies.

I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call it that, was to discover and learn and be excited by what I was doing. If I didn't have that, I would find it elsewhere.

I love acting, of course, and I would still love to keep acting, but I want to try my hands at so many things.

I think it's human nature to say, 'You're a wrestler. That is what you do.' I think it can be hard sometimes for people to understand that you can have more than one thing you like to do.

I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people.

I want to constantly do better than my last film.

Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.

I don't have to just have one kind of life. I can have several different creative lives.

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing. I didn't want to be pigeonholed as just a jock. I'm also an author, a student of history, and I collect memorabilia from the Wild West. I'm also a son, a father, and a friend.

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways.

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.