Quotes About Ambition

It isn't easy to break into Bollywood. But that's not my goal.

It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.

What matters the most to me is breaking into the top-10.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.

One of my great breaks is I have only done work I wanted to do.

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Everyone is trying to make that breakthrough into the top 100.

Yes, people are always predicting a big breakthrough for me, but it has never happened. I don't know why, exactly. But I don't worry about it.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

A lot of people think you go to a top college, you come into the NBA and it'll be all a breeze and easy. It's not like that.

My life had changed from being a bricklayer to a regular goalscorer in League One.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.

The thing about fame is, you want it your whole life, but no matter how bright you are, no one ever asks themselves why they want fame. You never really know what it is until you have it. You can never tangibly feel your own fame.

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.

I think America has a brilliant future.

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Merlin was five years of my life. I enjoyed every year, every day. I had a brilliant time on it. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted to do more.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.