Quotes About Ambition

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time.

I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.

Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy. I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me!

I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director for hire, is going back to where I started as a self-generating director. After trying and failing to get so many things made, I have decided that you've just got to do something you really, really love.

Nobody's ever going to hire me to choreograph fights.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

My father graduated from high school and didn't go to college and still found his way.

I don't think that being Hispanic, being black, being white - I don't think that limits you to anything. I think everyone should just go for what they want.

I don't have a dream role as such, but given a chance, I would want to play a historic role.

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon d'Or, that would be historical.

I want to push the boundaries on the roles that have historically been given to actresses who look like me. There is so much more we can do. There always has been.

I'm focused on being the best, making history.