Quotes About Ambition

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

The best players want to play in the best competition.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.