Quotes About Ambition

I've been working since I was 7.

For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera.

Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.

I told everybody since the second I've been in the league that I've been very success-driven.

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.

They've been bashing me since I started making films.

Of course I want to be president, I want to win, but I also want to be sincere.

I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.

I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.

But after sincerely doing TV for years, there came a point when I felt that I should try films because I wanted to take on a new challenge in life.

Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That's how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.

I knew I had a sharper mind than most others and I had a sense of rhyme. One didn't even need to sing melodies. It felt like the perfect way to make my way out of the gutter.

At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

I'm a little kid from Azusa - for people to even know my name in Singapore, that is huge for me. That's what I've always dreamed of.

I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.