Quotes About Ambition

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint Eastwood.' Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?

I saw a bakery truck go by with the name 'Rocco' on it, and that's when I decided to become Alex Rocco.

My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job.

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

When I left Baltimore I put everything I owned in my dad's pick-up truck and drove cross-country to make it as a rockstar in L.A.

I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

It's hard because there's a part of me that wants 'True Detective' to win every award we're nominated for. But I'm a huge fan of 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.'

My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

When I saw 'Bully' and I was 11 or 12 years old I thought I could do this; I could make movies. Larry Clark's cinematography is very raw. It's also based on a true story. I think a lot of the movies I like are based on true stories.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

I dream pretty big, but truly had no idea my life could be this awesome. I am the luckiest girl in the world, without question!