Quotes About Ambition

I was invincible. I believed all my problems were gone and I finally made it, that L.A. was my answer to everything.

I didn't want to be invisible. I don't know what I wanted to be, but it wasn't invisible.

Let's just say I didn't get invited to a lot of frat parties.

I still have a day job, so I don't think I'll be a full-time Shark, but if they ever invited me back, I'd be more than happy to do it.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

I wanted to grow up to be George and Ira Gershwin from the age of about six.

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn't afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture, and my mother is an antiques dealer.

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.

Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.

I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries.

There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.

There is something restless and curious about the Irish. Like everybody else, we want to make money and make our way in the world but it's not the be all and end all. We also want to have fun, we want to make friends, make connections, share stories.

Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

People say sometimes that I'm distracted. I'm not distracted. I'm being smart. I'm capitalizing while the iron is hot. That's why I'm trying to do movies. I do the podcast. I do a radio show. I work on FOX. I have a gym; I have a lot of things going on. That's because when I'm done, I want to be set up.

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

You are in school, and you hear about 'Iron Chef' and think, 'One day, I have to be on 'Iron Chef.'

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

Any fighter who's willing to step up, I'm willing to fight them. I'm ready to rule with an iron fist.