I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.
I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.
You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.
I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.
I love finding new talent, to be completely honest, and my opportunity that I got to do 'X Factor U.K.' was just incredible. I will never forget it.
No matter how successful or great you become, never forget that you are nothing without the mercy of God.
Never forget that you solely owe unconditional self-love and massive success to yourself.
