Quotes About Ambition

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

You can't hate and ball at the same time

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

I resisted being an actor for some time.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.

It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an actor all the time. In that, all mediums become important in their own ways.

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.