Quotes About Ambition

Everybody has a way to get to college. You study in high school, you do your work. There are always grants or loans that can be available. I guarantee you - if you want it, you can get it. Don't close the door on yourself.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

When you play at City with top players, you don't have a guaranteed place in the starting eleven.

I have to work my way up. There's nothing guaranteed in this league.

I would much rather pass up on some of that guaranteed money... and bet on myself and just see what happens.

In the UFC, nothing is guaranteed. Anything can happen when it comes to getting a title shot.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

I wanted to be a guard. I wanted to be 6'8' and stay there.

Goal of mine is to make first team All-Defense. The way you do that is guarding the best players.

I want to be one of the best point guards to ever play.

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

That's my dream - to play Coachella... not as a guest but as me!

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Know your goals - it will help guide your decisions.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

I would try to guide my children in a different way to have a career. Something besides being an actress, singer or model. I'm definitely going to push my kids in the other direction.

I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

As a woman and as a mother, as a young mother, I felt guilty about being successful.

When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

If the charge against me is that I fight to win, and I'm intense, then I'm guilty.