Quotes About Ambition

We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.

It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars - like really had the ability to do that.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

When you're on the way up, you have to take all the jobs because bills have to be paid.

You can have a passion for something, but you still have to pay the bills.

I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'

I aspired to make 'Tum Bin II' better than my first film, if not as good as 'Tum Bin.'

Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.

From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.

I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!

I left school on my 15th birthday.

I always try to work on my birthday.

When I was playing Bishop, I would always walk on set thinking, 'This is my show; this is a show all about me.'

I didn't get into politics so that I could take little bites around the edges.

I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.

I want to do a black comedy with Homi Adajania and also want to work with Vishal Bhardwaj, Imtiaz Ali and Anurag Kashyap.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.