Quotes About Ambition

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

I want to lead the pack in the process of making Indian singers bigger than actors internationally.

It's always been my goal to have backing singers.

When I was younger I was interested in fame. Lots of kids want to be actors and singers and stuff and it's fun to be recognized and fun to have pictures taken of you.

I'm one of the best producers, one of the best singers. You hear me? I'm not just one of the best rappers. I'm one of the greatest ever.

'X Factor' isn't just about internationally recognized singers, it's about all the rest of us. There's a human interest story there.