Quotes About Ambition

Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else. There are certain things you have to give up, even at 13, 14: your Friday and Saturday nights, having a regular girl, lots of things like that. I look at Amy Winehouse, and I think perhaps she just don't want to do it that much.

It's definitely one of those things when you decide to be an actor that it would be really cool to be in a Broadway show or a series regular on a hit show.

We're talking about growing up in regular families, dreaming about better things, instead of popping bottles in the club and spending a lot of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement.

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

I am a regular for one of the biggest clubs in Europe, and I want to progress still further.

I don't want to be just a regular great fighter. I want to be the best.

Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that.

I want to play for Liverpool in the Premier League on a regular basis, I will never deny that.

I feel like I'd be able to gain so much by playing big games on a regular basis, including the Champions League.

When a regular guy like me starts getting attention, it's natural to want more. I wanted the next video to be bigger than the last.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

If Celtic were to build a team strong enough to regularly compete in the Champions League, I might decide to manage them one day.

I didn't see myself playing regularly at right-back for Manchester United or making my England debut in that position.

All I ever wanted was to play regularly and now that I'm doing that, there's no doubt my confidence is higher and that helps any player.

At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.

It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.

I missed my homecoming for a rehearsal.

Every project I got, whether I was playing a friend or doing television, I just wanted to prove myself: every single take, cue, and rehearsal is an audition. That's my approach.

Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.