Quotes About Ambition

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

Let's be honest, you're very selfish in your twenties, and in your thirties you are just trying to get a down payment for your flat or enough money to pay your bills.

For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I had spent about a year in Michigan studying the history of art.

I hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.

New York is great in your twenties.

It wasn't until entering my twenties that I began to identify my real dream as an actress.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

The goal for the top American isn't the top twenty - it's top ten, top five, number one in the world.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.