Quotes About Ambition

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.

I wanted to look cute, hot and sexy all at the same time in 'Bigg Boss!' How else will the Bollywood producers cast me in their films as the lead actress?

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.

I was a welder for about three or four months, and I was lucky enough to get out of it because there was a guy who wanted to support me and pay for my racing.

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

I wanted to be in the police force, a teacher, a judge, lawyer, doctor, and other jobs. Of course, my mind changed as I started to face reality.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.

In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.

I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

My parents told me if I wanted to fight, they wouldn't support me.

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.