Quotes About Ambition

Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

I can be the best James Bond there is.

There comes a time in every man's life when he realises he will never be James Bond.

They haven't said it, but let's be clear: I would never have been on the list for James Bond, so I'm not labouring under that misapprehension.

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were never going to hire me for a 'James Bond' film off 'Swingers.'

I want to be James Bond! I don't want to be Doctor Who.

Maybe I can become the next James Bond.

I'd have loved to play James Bond in the movie series.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.

In 'Girlfriends,' I was exploring the idea of having it all. In 'Being Mary Jane,' I was exploring the idea that you have to be the center of everything.

I'll be a janitor in 'Crazy Rich Asians 2.' Let's do that.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I want to be playing into January for the rest of my career, God willing.

I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe somewhere.

Of course I wanted to main-event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went back to New Japan.

When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.

Reality is, I could have made Japan a career. I could have just gone to Japan and I'd have been great.

I thought I could go and make a bigger name for myself on the independents and possibly in Japan, places like that.