Quotes About Ambition

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

I really asked myself, "Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?" That's what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

I have proven people wrong so many times. I was told when I was younger there is no chance I will make the top 100, top 50, top 30. Every time I have proven them wrong. It's kind of nice.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.