Quotes About Ambition

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where you came from, but because of where you want to go.

I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

Im always thinking about what I might want to do next, but theres still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

I cannot believe that NSWRU don't want to interview me.