Quotes About Ambition

You never get the role you have worked so hard for, but the dream role, the one who gives you joy, money and maybe even honor, that one just falls into your lap.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.

I didn't think Barca could go for me, I have no honors, I don't have a great CV.

I went to an all-girls boarding school in Maryland. I used to laugh at the girls in the theater program - I was pre-med, National Honors Society; I was on that track.

I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.

To represent your country is the ultimate honour, and to play Test cricket for India will be the ultimate fulfilment of my cricketing ambition.

I always wanted to be the best at what I did; I wanted that at university, I wanted the first-class honour and to be the best in class.

I have been compared with Antonio Conte and it is an honour to be compared with him. I would love to enjoy the same success he has had as a coach.

It's a great honour to make a lot of histories, to be No.1 player in Japan but that never gives me the pressure.

My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing 'The Bill,' I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as 'Training Day' or 'Boyz n the Hood.' So to have worked with some of the greats I've admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me.

'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

If I wanted to make it out of the hood, which I did, and do something fulfilling with my life then I needed a job that paid me a lot of money. Coincidentally, I found that job being a glamour model.

America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

I hope I'm lucky enough to be at Arsenal for a long time.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.

I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.