Quotes About Ambition

Obviously, everyone wants to play in the NBA but I think if you handle what's in front of you first you'll get your chance when your name is called.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

Some people are very good at being themselves and being very natural on screen or being very sexy or handsome or whatever. I like that, and I aspire towards that, but I don't know if I always make it. I work very hard.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

If you want to be the best, hang out with the best.

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

A lot of the people I know connect through working. We're all so ambitious. Sometimes my friends will say, 'I want to hang out with you.' And I just go, 'Well, let's do a project together.' That's the only way I can.

Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.

I've always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE.

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

Everybody wants to have their 'Breaking Bad.' It went to Bryan Cranston. It couldn't have happened to a better guy or a better actor.

I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

No matter what happens, one should not stop dreaming... dreams do come true.

I will be happier if I crash by trying than not trying and running around behind the same guy for 70 laps.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

I would have done it happily, but to be a Bond girl isn't everything I aim for as an actress.

I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams. But, happily, it came off.