Quotes About Ambition

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn't pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed.

If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

I tried to - I wanted to work at Blockbuster.

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.

Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

Ever since I was in high school, I just tried to prove people wrong, and a lot of people doubt me and I just put a lot of work in and a lot of effort into it.

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.

I think because there is the constant looming threat of nepotism and judgment, I really tried to separate what I was doing at MTV, my auditions, anything I was doing creatively, from my family.

I have tried girl-next-door. I have done the role of a corporate woman. A love story is something that I would like to work on.

Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.

I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school.

Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.