Quotes About Ambition

I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

I wanted to be the Number 1 overall pick.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.

My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you're going to be the best then you're going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?

I always wanted to do be an allrounder. I don't know why I picked keeping.

Lee Daniels, even though he owes me $2 million, I picked that. I put him in business.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.

I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream.

I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

I never had any expectations. When I was 11, I just wanted to play for England. I didn't know when it would happen, how it would happen. I picked that dream, and I wanted that dream.

For me, I'm a fighter and I like to play for big clubs because that's where you improve yourself. Every day at training you have to give a hundred per cent to be picked by your manager.

When I was growing up, the honor role kids were picked on by the jocks. And those kids said, 'You know, 15 years from now, I'm going to be their boss and own them.'

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.

It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.