Quotes About Ambition

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.

Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.

People with ambition want Paolo Di Canio.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.