Quotes About Ambition

I am a greedy actor: I want all the scripts to come to me. So I do all the good films which come my way, even if it means I'll rest a little less.

As an actor, I am greedy.

I am very greedy as an actor. I want to explore as much as possible.

I am not content at all. I am a very greedy actor, I just want to keep exploring myself.

I am a person who is greedy to do better in life, to do more in life.

Every striker from England I know is the same; they're greedy and they want to get goals.

I'm a greedy actor, craving for exciting parts to play.

I can't think of anybody among the greats who isn't constantly looking at themselves and feeling dissatisfied. You're greedy in this business: always wanting to prove you can do more. I don't ever remember a time when I've said, My God, I've cracked it - this is lovely.

I want to work in all sorts of movies, I am very greedy.

Greedy actors should never be satisfied.

I've always been greedy. I think every actor is greedy for good parts and stories, and it should be that way.

It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.

I don't feel comfortable with the idea that my only gateway into doing what I love to do is auditioning for other people to give me the green light and say that I'm allowed to do it, or that I'm allowed to play this role, or that I'm allowed to be in this movie. I would feel much more comfortable making those opportunities for myself.

Everyone always thinks the grass is greener. That's sports.

Shonda and 'Grey's' have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that's something that I hadn't really envisioned for myself, other than directing for theater. Now I've got this resume of television credits that I can carry forward into the next opportunity.

Disney has made $2 billion on 'Grey's Anatomy.' I don't have $2 billion.

I got 'The Grey' made because Liam Neeson wanted to make that movie.

I would love to appear in 'Scandal,' something like that, or 'Grey's Anatomy' because I think they're incredible.

It is important for me to believe in a team that has ambition. I want to go up and work towards something. I don't want to work in the grey areas and say it is nice to end up 10th or 11th and keep on doing that every year.

I first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.

That's what the grind is, doing all the little things knowing that something may not come out of it. It probably won't. But the goal is to get a shot at it.

I don't really feel like I done made it all the way. I feel like, 'OK, we did this. Then we grinded enough to get to this point. Now we gotta grind enough to get bigger and bigger,' you know?

I used to grind. I be telling people, you don't grind, you don't sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.