Anna Friel Quotes

I have very high expectations out of myself.

My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.

I don't have a coach. I haven't had a coach for, like, years.

My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

I think my parents wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. But I do remember them - when I first moved out to L.A. - sending me applications to grad school for teaching.

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.