Quotes About Ambition

I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.

I had some early success with my first film and since then it's been a grind. It's clearly a craft that I love, and a craft that I work on constantly, but after so many years, I didn't feel like I had much to show for that.

I spent so many years acting as my own booking agent and manager, just to get out there and play shows. You have to show you really want it.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

I love competition, it is so much fun and motivating.

Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life.

I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.

I want to act. That'd be so much fun.

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

It took me so much time to build my confidence and say that I can take on more.

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

I really wanted to do 'Darna.' I invested so much time, so much effort.

It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

think big about who you are and what you offer the world.

In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become.

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain1

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

the first step towards greatness is taking the first step

The first step towards greatness is taking the first step -Michael Wright

What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.