I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
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I could never dream of being cool.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.
If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
I've never been cool - and I don't care.
People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
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