Quotes About Ambition

I thought I wanted to be on ESPN, but I didn't know what the heck it was. I knew it was sports television, but we didn't have it. We didn't really watch TV growing up.

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

For me there ain't no high heel high enough.

As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.

If you are in the team, there is always going to be someone biting away at your heels trying to get in.

I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.

New York is a town of my height.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

To have 'In The Heights' be my first show in New York after moving here, I remember feeling at the time like, you know, 'It doesn't get any better than this.'

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.

I think I would have held my own in the NFL.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

I've always been of the opinion that great talent can't be held down.

Being shy has never held me back.

If you have any talent, you can't be held back, and you can't be held down.

Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.