Quotes About Ambition

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

My desire for fame is infinite.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.

I started working when I was 17. After working for seven-eight years, I informed my parents about my acting decision.

Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.

I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.

Football is something so ingrained in me, something I love doing and definitely something I want to do.

There is a family atmosphere at Inter, and there are all the ingredients to aim high.

I think Porki' will be my best break as it has all the ingredients of a good film.

I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film Society, to just being in a film world. It's a life that I wanted to inhabit. I think everyone has the opportunity to do that in this world - it's just, are you gonna work for it, and how much does it mean to you?

I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and spend a big chunk of a year reading, or trying to read, 'War and Peace' as it was meant to be read, in Russian, with all that rumbly rocks-on-rocks poetry inherent to the language.

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

The No. 9, a team's centre forward, is a number that means a lot and, God willing, I hope to inherit it some day.

I feel middle-class, but my family had to start from scratch. There was no inheritance from a great-aunt. It feels like a slog.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.