Quotes About Ambition

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

There is lot of competition happening in the South and I'm incapable of being in the race, but I will be more than happy to do a good role and prove that I am capable of doing it.

People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive.

I think a lot of guys get out of wrestling for financial incentive to go to the UFC, but I'm doing well.

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

In football, you have to look out for yourself and know when that ride is over. That extra inch after you've already got the first down - what's that going to get you? Not much.

One of the movies I know affected me was 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.' I remember feeling like it was such a brave and scary and awesome movie, and it was so ambitious. I felt really connected to it emotionally.

Even before IIT, I always had an inclination to do something, even when I was in school.

When rewards go up, people are more inclined to take risks.

Actors are a funny lot. Sometimes they're not satisfied with where they are. I include myself.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today.

I have built my own factory on my own ground, 38 by 208 feet. I employ in that factory seven people, including a bookkeeper, a stenographer, a cook and a housegirl.

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.

When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

I make an eight-figure income annually.

The perspective is that one week out of the year does not a career make nor enough income make.

Because I'm a little ADD, I would like to incorporate even more facets to my career eventually, such as writing and directing films.

The more medals I win, the more my ambitions and confidence levels increase.

I do hope to increase what I do into a Brad Goreski brand.

'Bigg Boss' is such a popular show that it will help me increase my national and international reach.