Quotes About Ambition

Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

Being sporty at heart, I've wanted to learn football since I was a child. But I never got the chance because, growing up, my family didn't have the finances for extra-curricular activities.

Growing up, I was not athletic.

I always tell people, when I was growing up I was really into getting money - I didn't really care about anything else.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

Growing up, we had to work. If you wanted anything at all that was more than basic food and shelter, you had to make your own money.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

No one grows up wanting to be a sixth man.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

When you're super passionate about something, you're more willing to do all of the grunt work. You know, like, I'm so willing to live on a bus for my whole life because that means I get that one moment on stage or that one moment in the studio that totally fills me.