Quotes About Ambition

The thing is, everybody wants to be famous. Everybody wants to be successful. Everybody wants to be that dude, but not everybody wants to do the work for it. And I think that's probably one of the reasons why there's so many juniors and only a couple that make it. Because I really wanted it. I wanted it real bad.

My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.

America was built on hard work and not complaining about stupid junk.

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far.

I am just a girl chasing her dreams and having an amazing adventure.

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

I want to win just as much as anybody else does.

Neymar could have earned just as much from Manchester City or Chelsea.

I don't want to just be a good driver: I want to be a complete driver and hopefully the best driver in the world.

To a lot of people, I might just be the guy who went No. 1 in the draft. Or the guy who lost his job to Colin Kaepernick. Or the guy who helped turn a 2-14 Chiefs team into a back-to-back division champ... but then couldn't put them over the top.

If I were Elizabeth Sloane, I wouldn't be wearing makeup. I'd just be focused on getting the job done.

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Besides buying a mansion or something, everything I wanted I always got. I'm just ready to invest it and save it. Otherwise, life can hit you, but you can't go back to working at Home Depot. That's why I always just be stacking.

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

I'd like to just win everything. It would just be awesome.

Why can't I just be a running back?

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.

I want challenges. I want to compete. I don't want it to always be easy. I don't want it to always just be a few of us girls. I want there to be competition.

I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.