Quotes About Ambition

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

You must have high ambitions and high ambitions scare small-minded people.

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

I can get a little scattered and want to be everywhere and want to do everything for everyone.

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

I'm not really trying to get in the acting field that hard. I'm trying to really be behind the scenes and direct and produce.

I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.

I was never going to be a scholar.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

At 17, I was finally in a school play.

I never wanted to act. I never participated in school plays.

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.