“I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It'...” — Ricky Whittle Quote

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

We try and give as much diversity to our show as possible. That's something that's very strong in our show: there are so many strong female leads in 'The 100.'

The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

I don't think anything can prepare you for the 'Strictly' experience. It really is insane. I mean, I played football, rugby, American football. I go to the gym. I like to think I'd be quite fit, and I don't have much fat on me to lose, and yet I still lost a stone and half and three inches off my waist.

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

I grew up with champions around me, so I knew what it was like to be ambitious and to work very hard.