Quotes About Ambition

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

When I was 5, I'm like,' I'm doing this,' whether there's women's ice hockey, men's ice hockey, whatever it was in my future.

I wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.

Every line expects to do big things when they're on the ice.

I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!

I don't work for awards; they're just an icing on the cake.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

I want to be an icon.

I have my Icy brand, so one day when I do have the time I'll create my own fashion line.

Id rather play Barcelona and out-possess them and out-score them than not.

If have done well for Leeds then Id have loved to have played for Manchester United, that would have been great.

One day Id like to try my hand at doing a gritty cop drama.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'

When you're young and idealistic, you don't care: you'll play to no one, in your bedroom - like kids with football - you'll play anywhere; you just love the music. And then, bang - soon as you're in the industry, you think that's the dream. But that's when the dream starts to end.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'

I am not an ambitious guy, I have a very laidback attitude; money for me is less important than self-respect and ideals.

The biggest challenge is to fulfill your own ideas about yourself.

It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'