Quotes About Ambition

Really, I've had enough of fame. Now I just want money.

I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the '80s. It was all about power women.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a hairdresser.

I'd love to do Broadway. It's funny. I love it, but I've never actually seen an actual Broadway show, not even 'Hairspray.'

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

If you dream big and you make it halfway and can find someone else that know the rest of the way you can still get there.

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn't conform to the idea of 'halfway.'

I was so competitive, I wanted to win games but... I lost 13 games in my first three years in college. I lost 13 games in my first month in the league and it felt like nobody cared. So, eventually halfway through the season, I'm like 'well, why the hell do I care?' If they don't care, why do I care.

I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.

I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!

Some people say that 'Drag Race' is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it's about shaking RuPaul down for her money.

I want to be in the Hall of Fame.

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

I really didn't understand how I got from my singing teacher's living room to the Albert Hall.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that important to me? No. Is it something I've aspired towards? No.

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.