Quotes About Ambition

I think, as long as I'm in this line of work, I'm always going to be mentioned when Celtic are looking for a new manager.

When I mentor girls, I'll go around the room and ask them what they want to be or do. I've heard so many kids say, 'I don't want to be anything,' which is really shocking, but it's because no one has sat down and asked them.

If anything, I'd say my family was entrepreneurial - my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn't have this one mentor that was super successful.

After watching 'Pagal Nilavu' I decided Mani Ratnam should be my mentor and joined him.

Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, 'Mercury' has also helped me enhance my skills as a director.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

I was determined to make it big on sheer merit.

I want to be Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid.'

Two of my favorite actresses are Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. So, I would love, love, love to work with them. But I also really love AnnaSofia Robb. There are a lot of great actresses I would love to work with.

I used to watch 'Death Becomes Her,' and I knew I wanted to become Meryl Streep.

'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.

The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

When somebody says, 'Do you want to play Dr. Dre in a movie?' I mean, how do you respond to that? My initial response was 'no' because I don't think I can do it ,and I don't want to be the one to mess it up!

You need to stay hungry and not allow someone like John Ruiz to come over and mess you up in front of all your fans.

My career, it's been a mess.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

My message always is: No matter where you are from, no matter what past you have, it is all about your future and your goals.

I'm just sending a message to women that you can be anything you want to be.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing I wanted from life.

In Vanity Fair, everyone messes up.

I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.