Quotes About Ambition

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

All I'm asking for is what I want.

The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.

Your life can be anything you want it to be.

I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

I would love to maybe shoot a movie or something, but end goals: I just want to play a superhero. I think that would be so much fun. I'm putting that energy into the universe for sure.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.

I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

I can do anything I want to do!

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.