Quotes About Ambition

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn't want to be an actor.

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I never looked at a title and said, I want that.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.