Quotes About Ambition

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap... Me, I'm just a background guy.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor."

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

I'm not Arsene Wenger. We're different. I want to win

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.