Quotes About Ambition

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something that they didn't want to do to pay the rent.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I'd always keep going back to the acting. Once the rent was paid, and the phone bill, the next money you had was for acting classes.

I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.

There's a lot of open mics, a lot of comedy clubs. Whatever money I could make was OK with me. As long as I could pay the rent, eat food, and tell jokes, doing it was good enough for me.

I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in 'Rent,' but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I'm not Whitney Houston up in here. I'm a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.

I knew I wouldn't be able to afford to rent a studio as well as get a home that I was excited about. So I was like, if I can do both in one, I can just about make it work.

Before 'Kai Po Che', I used to go for auditions in the hope that I will get work and should be able to pay my monthly house rent of 20,000 in 4 Bungalows, Andheri, Mumbai.

I went from being a hustler, working different jobs to renting rooms off Craigslist, and I just wasn't happy.

I think a lot of people might've and probably did have the idea of renting clothes before me. I was the only one who was crazy enough to attempt it.

When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

If you're putting in the hours to improve your skills and open up new opportunities, a car repair shouldn't compromise your future.

Hollywood is a tough business and repeat rejection is very much part of the process.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

Everyone is different, and so I don't want to repeat anyone else's career. I want to do mine.

I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.

I always want to do things that really have to be done, something that's a challenge - and I'm trying not to repeat myself.

Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.