Quotes About Ambition

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.

Shirley MacLaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

Next time you want to quit, think who you want to be. Quitters never win.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.