Sarah Brightman Quotes

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

I've got my head down, working hard, while others are chasing other frivolous things.

Don't be one foot in and one foot out, especially coming up in New York. It's so easy to lose sight of what you want to do and who you want to be.

I don't really miss anything, I'm so focussed on what I have to do - I'm so focussed on my work - that I don't miss any creature comforts.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It's not easy. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes it's friends. Sometimes it's the ability to have a relationship.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

I know where my priorities lie.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.