Quotes About Ambition

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

No one can have it all, at the same time. I've never seen that.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

I'm focused on this election, I am going full time for Senator Obama. But I never rule anything out. Everyday is a new opportunity. I would like to be Pope if I could.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

I want to spend time with Oprah and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen.

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: "If I'm not a star by the time I'm 18, I'll get out of the business."

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.