Quotes About Ambition

It's a funny thing because I don't want to wish away my privacy. Do I want 'Terminator Genisys' to explode? Absolutely. Do I want to take my career to the next level? Absolutely? You have to trade some things for that. It's all about how you conduct yourself and what you make of the experience.

When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

Direction is always on my wish list.

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

When I was a child, sitting in front of the campfire, I wished that I could win the Ballon d'Or.

It was a difficult decision to say no twice to Barcelona. It was never a secret that I have admired them since I was a kid and that I always wished I could play for Barcelona. But life is made of hard decisions that sometimes go against what you dream of.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

My mom wanted me to study medicine. But it was not easy to become a doctor in those days, and I became an actress. So, if I hadn't taken up acting, I would have tried to become a doctor as my mom wished for it.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I wished for just one medal as a junior.

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.

I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.

I never wished to be a 'rock star.' I just wanted to be a working musician. My dreams didn't even go past a session player or a working musician. It was too far beyond my dreams.

Just because I bought some jewelry and things I've always wished for and always wanted, it doesn't mean I'm not focused. It doesn't mean that I'm not hungry anymore.

My dad would tell me stories about when he was an underground fighter. One day when I was 11, he told me he wished he had a son who could have been a real boxer.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.