Quotes About Ambition

After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months thinking about that and not making any music.

I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

I don't want to get confined to only regional cinema as I want to exploit my potential. I want to perform challenging roles in a much more complex sphere like Bollywood.

I was thinking, could I be the sixth Spice Girl?

I look up to the Spice Girls. I love the fact they're still close; they went after what they wanted but still support each other.

That's been my goal since I was a child and saw the Spice Girls on TV: I was like, I want to wear those fancy outfits and sing my heart out on a big stage.

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

I would have loved to have played Spider-Man.

I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

I think it's the Canadian spirit that encourages people to dream a little bit.

What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

I bring the spirit of French conquest.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more ambitious than your average free spirit. This job is hard enough that, without drive and hard work, you will never make it work.