Richard Kind Quotes

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...

When I want something, I stop at nothing to get what I want, even if it takes a while.

If there is one thing I am, it is very hard-headed. If I want something, I go after it - and I go after it ad nauseum.

I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.'

To take something in the Emirates Stadium is far away from being easy but we don't think about that.

The Juventus that I know has always shown more hunger than their opponents.

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

The teacher would say, 'Not everybody makes it as a footballer, so what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' The teacher would say, 'But not everybody makes it. So what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' Every year that happened! Nothing was going to get in the way of me being a footballer.

You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.