Quotes About Ambition

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

What I would say to anyone who wants to be a model is, have something else. This shouldn't be your be-all and end-all in life: there are so many other amazing things to be done in the world. I also think that the industry really celebrates a woman who does something else. So keep at it, but always have something else.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

If my films fail, I will work on something else; my life will not end. And the film is not the end-all of my life.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

I'm very proud of 'Gavin and Stacey,' but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself a writer. Just because you do something once, it doesn't mean that's who you are. I played football last night; it doesn't mean I'm a footballer.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

It's like you always think that when you get to a goal, you'll be happy. But then there is always something else that interests you.