Quotes About Ambition

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade.

I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them call my house. My mom was so mad.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

In five years, I completed grade school. Even when I was a young boy, I had a plan for my life.

Since I've been in fourth grade, all I've known was basketball.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

I knew I had to get my grades so that I could focus on football.

I've coached a lot of teams and moved up gradually and tried to succeed and tried to have success at every level. When that happens, you just continue to wonder if you can keep doing it one more level.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.

I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.

My boys have both said they want to be in the movies or on TV, and anytime I hear that, I say, 'That's wonderful; you're free to do it right after you graduate from college.'

Don't just sit around and wait for it to happen. 'Get Your Roll On.' If you're going to buy some rims, graduate from college, or whatever, get your roll on and make something shake.

In a world where you graduate with a theater degree from college, you gotta find your bread job. You gotta find that job to pay the bills.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.