Quotes About Ambition

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a career out of it.

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

I ventured into cinema after theatre because I didn't want to confine myself to just one auditorium. I wanted the whole world to talk about me.

I would be fooling myself if I thought I would succeed as an entrepreneur. Maybe my base as a theatre artiste gave me the confidence as that's when you start feeling you can do something on your own.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.