Quotes About Ambition

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

Whatever you do, just don't stand still. Make the changes you need today, so you can live the life you want, tomorrow.

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

I wanna be somebody. I mean, I am somebody. I just wanna be a rich somebody.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.

Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be.