Teyonah Parris Quotes

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.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do.

I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

You have to choose whether to take the money or follow your own ambitions, playing in the best league in the world and winning titles.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I'll take it. It's really good fun. But because I don't crave the attention or the buzz, it's not like I'm desperate for it.

It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more.

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

I want to be on the cover of 'GQ.' That's a personal goal.

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young.

One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.