Quotes About Ambition

You can't sit around and do nothing, you have to carry on.

I'm not going to sit on my laurels.

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I know who I am. I just sit back and gather my paper.

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

There is no doubt that I feel bad when a film flops, but I can't sit back and not take up new work owing to that.

When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that I've spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

In the back of my head, I always thought it would be great to become an actress on a sitcom.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?

I would love to be on a sitcom or on Broadway.

Every comic is taught that you're supposed to have a great seven-minute set and then get a sitcom. And I don't want to get the sitcom.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.