Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I was born in a tiny place in Ivory Coast, so being a protagonist in this life is a dream.

I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general, you go through this thing where you want to be the best always, constantly.

I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.

I have a niece now, and it makes me want to be better for her, just to show that there's a big wide world outside Toxteth, and you can imprint yourself in any one of those places as long as you do the hard work and have the desire.

I want a voice. I want people to know who I am and hear my story. I want people to see me get in the ring and give it everything I have, even though I come from a broken home.

England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream.

I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.

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.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're doing it.

No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.

If a person wants to make it big, they can, and they will! The place that they come from doesn't matter, whether small town or big.