Quotes About Ambition

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

I just want to say that I'm, like, living for myself, because I was onstage at Radio City Music Hall with Christina Aguilera - and my name was on the screen. It was a big moment!

I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is my favorite movie, and it's why I wanted to be an actor.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

A big moment for me came when 'Singin' in the Rain' came out. It hit me like a sledgehammer - that's what I wanted to do.

I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'

Rain - his power and charisma onstage is impressive, and I hope to have that one day.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

I want babies before I'm 25. I want to bring my babies on the road and bring them to concerts and raise them in the studio.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.