Cheryl Ladd Quotes

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.

Acting is everything to me; it's what I've always wanted to do. I may never have this chance to do what I'm doing right now. So I guess right now I'm going to do as much as I can with it.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.

It is important to be clear about what you want and pursue that passionately.

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

I hope that young girls will have the dream and will have experiences. And it might not be in swimming. It might be in something else. But I found a passion, and I love it. It's something I love and something I enjoy. It's something I'm good at. And it's what I have been able to give 100 percent to.

To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can't achieve.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.