Kangna Ranaut Quotes

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

To cement your name, you've got to go after the biggest fights.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

I just want to keep working hard. I just want to keep improving myself. And I just want to prove people that I can play in the real game.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

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.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

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 want to have a long career.

I dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.

I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?

I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn't rise to those heights.

It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.

I'm very ambitious when it comes to cameos.

I want to be a director - and you need to get out there and do it, you can't wait 'til it comes to you... I'd give anything to be able to do what Ron Howard's done.

I had always wanted a top spot, ever since I came to Japan in 2008.

I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league, it's put me in a good situation.

It's the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn't mean I regret whatever choices I've made over the years. No, not even 'Kaiyethum Doorathu!'