Quotes About Ambition

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

In 2001, I watched Kinder Bologna win the EuroLeague, and I thought, Damn, I want to the win that some day. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

I dig all kinds of competition.

You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

I believed in myself and now I've been crowned king.

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

It's what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

We're the kings of partyin', and that's a great place to be. We can laugh stuff off and keep executing our vision of turning this world into a party planet.

Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook.

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.