Kim Weston Quotes

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.