Anne Murray Quotes

One thing just led to another, and today, here I am, acting in a daily soap, and I am just loving it.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

I'm in a 'I can do whatever' phase. I'm taking this '106 & Park' opportunity into full force. I'm really focused on doing my best with it. This is my 'Fresh Prince' moment. I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest of film, TV, and more.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

I have always been a person with big aspirations, and I have always been confident I could take my opportunity, but you never know until you are out there.

When I walked away from my role as Angie in 'Eastenders' all those years ago, it was a huge risk, but I always had this great desire to do so many things.

I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

My son has been wiser than me in terms of his career graph. He saw to it that he became a star first and start to get all the roles that he wanted to do.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

The advice I give, no matter male or female, is not being afraid to step outside your comfort zone and think more long-term about your career than maybe the next year.

As soon as I was given the opportunity at Stoke it was head down, this is what I want. This is where I want to be, this is my opportunity and I was fully confident about taking it.

It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it.

That was how I felt at non-league. I never looked at it then and said, 'I want to be a Premier League manager one day'. I just wanted to do a good job and see where it could take me.

It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when you're going to do it. As a child, you never know the date or that one person who's going to take you to the next person, who is going to put you in position and give you that one opportunity.

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

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.