Quotes About Ambition

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

I watched people blow up after the XXL cover, and I watched people drown - you know what I'm saying? And that's not what I'm trying to do.

I could blow up from making a beat or I could blow up from making a song.

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening. I had to have that role.

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making good money playing music was pretty attractive.

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on board.

I do look at leader boards. I want to know where I'm at.

My dream was to be a celebrity, to be on TV like Bob Hope was.

I would love to work with Eminem, Dr. Dre. I wish I could have been in the studio with Bob Marley.

I wanted to be Bob Hope or Red Skelton from the time I was 8 years old.

Bobby Roode is the kind of guy who will stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

When I was 7 or 8, I'd go to bodybuilding shows with my family because they had friends who were into it, and it became something I wanted to do one day. I wanted to look big and strong.

When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy.

We make no apology for being bold and ambitious.

I'm always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts.

If you do what you've always done, you just get more of what you have always had. We've now got to dream big and act bold.

I think that NYC naturally brings out a bolder personality in people.

People want bigger, bolder answers to the problems that exist. I felt, as leader, 'My analysis is big; are the answers big enough?'

Bollywood was never on my to-do list. It just happened.

You want to do a lot as an artist, and Bollywood does not always give you that freedom.