Quotes About Ambition

One Direction prove you can generate success from anything.

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

A lot of guys have made it from a lot of different places, and not necessarily because they had parents with great genes. They worked really hard, and they used the resources they had as well as they could.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country; that was my genre when I was a kid.

You don't call yourself the Demon Chef by being gentle. I am tough.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

Everyone comes to L.A. to accomplish goals, and sometimes it's hard to find a genuine person in the middle of all that.

The thing is, I get asked when I first knew I wanted to act so often, and I genuinely can't answer it. It's just... I got the bug, and that's it.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

I'm already the first Georgian to play in the Finals, but I also want to be the first to be part of an NBA title.

We really want to be successful in America, we really want to try it. There are not so many German bands who get the chance to come to America to play.

I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and when I was becoming a professional footballer, I felt like a German.

I got to Germany without being scouted, and without any experience of playing for my country. But I was given the chance to excel.