Quotes About Ambition

When I was in high school in Paris, some photographers wanted my photos and asked if I was interested in modeling. I wasn't interested because I wanted to get my education first. I was scared because I didn't know what I was getting into.

I've always been very - for lack of a better phrase - hit-seeking, hit-driven.

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

You've heard the phrase 'There are no small roles, just small actors?' Well, I kind of disagree. There are small roles, but when you get a lot of them in a row, you can become a pretty successful actress, and that's what I've done.

I think you should be able to imagine things in a different way. And, you have to dedicate both your physical and mental abilities to that ambition to accomplish it.

Physically and mentally, it's quite hard. But I'm playing cricket for England. It's what I dream about doing.

I wanted to do something in film. I wanted to make my own movies. Something clicked in my brain, like, 'Oh, I can physically act! I can go on open casting calls and audition for something.'

In a healthy way, I'm super competitive. I want to do everything to the best of my ability. If I'm not giving 110 percent, then it's not worth doing. That's really been the whole thing of my career so far, even down in NXT. I want to be the best I can physically be.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult.

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.

I loved music and felt I had enough talent to become a concert pianist, but I was foolish enough to let myself be laughed out ot the idea.

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

I wanted to play the piano.

Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.