Quotes About Ambition

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're doing it.

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.

The Ballon d'Or? It's up to the journalists to vote. I do not go to bed every night thinking about it. I just try to do my best and score as many goals as possible.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't.

When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.' More than 40 years later, I figure it's finally time to write about this crazy journey that's taken me around the world and back.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

I really don't want to be a journeyman.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

And obviously I will try to beat Juan Pablo. We are not friends. But we respect each other. May the best man win - I hope it's me.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

A lot of people judge you on your height, your wingspan, but it's really about the will and the determination that defines a person.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

My message is simple to all the knockers: I am knuckling down and want to play my football with a great club and a great manager. Then you can judge me.

For me, I want to be scoring goals. That's what I'm judged on, and that's what I judge myself on.