Quotes About Ambition

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.