Quotes About Ambition

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

I never wanted to be a slap hitter. It would hurt my pride if someone called me one. I wanted to be a guy who could do everything.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

Working with Gale Anne Hurd has been a dream of mine. I mean, I grew up watching 'Terminator' and 'Aliens' and watching Sigourney Weaver just slay!

I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.

Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.

I don't sleep as much as normal people do.

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.

When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn't pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn't pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national bestseller, 'The Straight Girl's Guide To Sleeping With Chicks.'

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

I was performing in front of mirrors forever. Just jumping around my room at, like, three in the morning when everybody else was sleeping. So when it came time, I was so ready.

I mean, in A ball, there were five of us in a two-bedroom apartment. In Double-A, I think there were like eight of us in a four-bedroom house. There's a lot of that going on so that guys can... and the whole time, you're sleeping on air mattresses and you're using Rubbermaid bins as furniture.

When I was young I just regarded not sleeping as a fantastic way to pack more into my days. I always reasoned that life's so short, it seemed crazy to waste it sleeping.

Me and my sisters never saw race as a limitation on what we wanted to achieve... One thing we were doing were sleeping on racism.

I'm so sleepy most of the time, but I guess it's 'cause I'm constantly doing things and trying to move forward and set up for the master plan. The master plan is to be, like, little baby Oprah, with my own production company, maybe my own channel, inspire millions.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.