Quotes About Ambition

I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it.

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.

No one really cares about you but you. They say they do, but everyone in Hollywood is a heat-seeking missile, and it's easy to go after the cute girl or guy that's new to town.

I'm trying to show that it doesn't matter where you are from, even a little town like Green Cove. You can make it.

I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

Even coming from small towns, the biggest dreams are possible.

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.

I decided I could develop a toy and get some revenue from that and then use that revenue to really become an inventor and work on some of the more challenging projects I had in mind.

Toyota is competitive in anything they do.