Quotes About Ambition

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

My biggest goal was that I have to land a film. Landing a film with Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar... it doesn't happen.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

Yes, I was a footballer, but there's more to me than meets the eye. I've got more levels. So many levels. I'm not going away - and I'm going to keep on talking until things start changing.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.

I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.

The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

I don't really care much about being a meme. That's not what I want to be known for, as being a meme from 2016. That's not what I'm here for.

Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

Initially I thought I'd get to Memphis and freak out, I thought I was going to feel so inadequate but I got there, and something grabbed hold of me and I just knew this was my arena.

By indignities men come to dignities.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

If I could go into a time machine and be in my 20s again and do 'Flora the Red Menace,' I would. That was always the one. I mean, have they done that? I don't think so. No one's done that show. That was sort of a dream role of mine.