Quotes About Ambition

Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.

If I am to choose two words that best describes myself, they are 'self-esteem' and 'guts.' Guts helped me become a global model.

I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I had to take a very long route to finally arrive here.

I have a lot of money, but I still feel broke. When I say I feel broke, I don't mean broke in a financial sense, but I still feel like that kid from the gutter who's still trying to get it, even though I'm at the place I want to be.

I don't want to be a guy that has got one cap.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy.

I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.

I'm just a small guy.

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.

It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

I am learning aerobics and gymnastics, so I would love to do an action film.

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

While I love college gymnastics, I'd like to try and compete for my country.

'Gypsy' is the ultimate stage-mother story: Mama Rose is the one who should have been a star; she's the one with the talent. But she chose to have kids and put her dreams into them. The musical shows the power of showbiz and how much it can mean to someone.

I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

I honestly don't think I can hack it in the 9-to-5 world, though I've never actually tried.

I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.