Quotes About Ambition

Hopefully I've inspired a lot of people who thought they'd never be able to get their own TV show to give it a go.

The main dream is to get 'Mandem On The Wall' its own TV show. That's the kind of platform that we're trying to reach.

I lived in my parents' basement until the age of 25 while I was trying to get my TV show off the ground.

If you would have said, in law school, would it be more likely that I would be working on a book or on a TV show, I would have said book.

Getting a TV show and getting on to Discovery was the main goal when I started the company in 2004.

I've joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.

I really want to expand with movies and I would love to land on a TV show, like a Netflix original series, that would be fantastic.

I'd like to get my own TV show on, whether it's a talk show or a comedy, that I write.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

I have 50 rejected TV show ideas. I think when I hit 100, then I'll feel like I really started to make it.

I'd like to prove that just because I'm on a TV show about the area that I live in, it doesn't mean that I can't do anything, that I'm not strong - and I really hope that I show that.

I could sell my own TV show, but I couldn't get it made.

I realized I don't want anyone to control my destiny, whether it's a network TV show or not. I would rather invest in my own projects and if they fail, they fail on their own merits, not because somebody else mangled it.

I think I was always this person. If you see my early work, my first TV show called 'Shikast' and a lot of 'Sea Hawks.' I think I was dealing with a misplaced definition of success.

I thought, 'As if I'm going to win a TV show, let alone get a record deal.' I'm going to go on TV with all these beautiful pop star-looking people? I'll never win.

In my final year of law school, everything became real. Malaysian TV shows wanted me to perform big concerts. So, after graduating, I decided to go for it. I didn't think I'd be a good lawyer anyway.

I worked as bricklayer, operating forklifts, building scenes for TV shows. I did everything. When I worked at the TV, I told them I would come back one day to give interviews, and they laughed at me.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

All the people I looked up to - Roseanne, Tim Allen, and Jerry Seinfeld - were stand-up comedians who used humor to get TV shows. I'm on TV now, and I'm working towards getting my own show.

In my business, you have so many things going at once - TV shows, projects, movies - and sometimes, things never actually come to fruition.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.