Daisy Ridley Quotes

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice keeper' - but your situation changes as your career goes on.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

I live for what I haven't done.

I have so many goals.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

I want to do really good things with my life.

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.