Quotes About Ambition

My father didn't believe in my music. I don't blame him.

I've always thought in the back of my mind I could do something really special with my life and I was just on a real path to not achieving that, and I blame that on alcohol.

Can you blame star kids for that? If I'm somebody's daughter, and I'm being offered a film, why would I say no?

If you're doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was blaming the teaching for that fact I wasn't performing. I really felt I needed to follow a comedy career.

I want to be the best Blazer - ever.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a young mogul. I'm blessed.

For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that.

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

Me and Nerlens grew up together. We're best friends. We played on the same AAU team in high school. It's like a dream come true. We always talked about how we were both going to make it to the NBA. For us to end up on the same team is a blessing.

Undrafted players who get to the door and don't have their name called. It's a blessing.

Of course I'm blessed. Super, super blessed. I also believe that you don't get nothing that you don't go for. Even with your blessings, you still gotta go do it.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind.

We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

If we make an important block, it can be like a goal.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?

All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.