Quotes About Ambition

Personalities don't love. They want something.

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.