Quotes About Ambition

Players are getting better at a younger age. It shows how fearless everyone is becoming.

I focus on myself and getting better every day.

You can't do an awful lot about getting older but you shouldn't let it stop you from doing what you want to do.

I do feel my African side, but I've always wanted to play for Germany. Ghana did contact me, but I told them and my dad that I was sure I wanted to play for Germany.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

Most of our songs were just talking about what we had seen in the ghetto. We weren't thinking, 'Oh, this is going to be large and we'll have gold records.' We were thinking it would be local and we'd make a couple of bucks.

With Ghost, I never really foresaw that it was going to take off the way it did.

I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'

Sometimes I just revert back to Dusty's kid. I'm trying to chase his ghost, and it's a pretty hard ghost to chase.

Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.

I've watched people in these movies like Bradley Cooper in 'Yes Man' become these giant stars themselves.

I always want to take on the giants.

I don't get things gifted to me.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

There'll be some opportunities for other things post-playing, but it's like, 'Man, I don't want to give this gig up.'

For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.

When I was given my first gig, and I had no real appetite for a career, I just worked to get money so I could live!

At 20, I was married, working as an auto mechanic, and living in Gainesville. I was doing Against Me!, but it wasn't by any means a full-time gig.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

I accomplished a lot in 2017 that I'd dreamt of: a late night set, TV writing gig, a speaking movie role.

My first professional gig was on a show called 'Nikita,' and I played Al Qaeda No. 2. At that time I had to take those roles because I just wanted to get my foot in the door.

Once we went into the basement and learned a song, we felt successful. Then we learned two songs, and then we got a gig, and on and on - and that's the way musicians think. I don't know about other people - I mean, I don't know about all musicians either - but some are more driven than others.

As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night after a gig, I'd go to bed dreaming of being in the band myself.