Quotes About Ambition

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.

I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

I always said, you have to have a goal and an objective in life.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.