Maddie Ziegler Quotes

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.

I've got other things to do with my life.

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.

I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish.

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

I really hope acting is going to be my career to the end, but you don't know anything, really, do you?

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

I can safely speak for Melissa when I say both of our plans when we moved to L.A. was probably very similar, which was, 'If I can make any kind of a living doing something I really enjoy, then, hooray.'

I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition.

I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.