Quotes About Ambition

The money that these baseball players are getting, I'm like, 'Man I picked the wrong sport.' But I'm having a great career. I wouldn't change it for the world.

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on 'E.R.' - which I'm just picking as an example - or be on a crime procedural.

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.

Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.

It doesn't matter who picks me up, I'm going to try and be a franchise player for them.

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether live or pickup, coach in the gym or not.

You can't really be picky and choosy for your first lead role.

I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain.

We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.