Quotes About Ambition

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.

If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.

I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

If I could play this game at a decent level, I'd come back and play.

I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

All I want is the same opportunities as the filmmakers I grew up admiring. But you know, I've had lots of amazing opportunities to do the movies I wanted to do. If I could write my future, I'd want to keep making character-based films that can make use of my voice as a filmmaker.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.

If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

I said I wanted to be the best in the world. I thought if I could make it, I would be able to change my future, to change my destiny. I would push myself to the limits. I would do 70 laps and barely eat.

There are goals that I have, and then I dream of it, and then I make it a reality. If I could crawl out of my skin and see it, it would be really amazing.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

We'll never know if I could have made it to the NFL. Do I think so? Yeah.

If I could have written a script of how I wanted my career to be, I couldn't have done it any better.

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.