Quotes About Ambition

I never wanted to be an actress. Acting wasn't in my mind. It wasn't in my calculations.

I wish I could calculate my way to a bigger audience, but I don't think I'm smart enough. Actually, I don't think anyone is smart enough. Most calculations along those lines fail.

If you're just trying to get by, you're going to be left behind. The caliber of shows I'm on are incredible, and it makes me just want to raise that bar even more.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

I would feel like such a behind if I went to California and made my family move, and they couldn't find their dreams there, too.

I'd do whatever it takes to stay in California; maybe not L.A. because it's so crazy.

I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmonton, but I definitely knew that music was what I was going to do with my life.

I want Caleb Truax. He was calling me out when I was 12-0.

During my whole year as Miss America and afterward, I was calling agents, looking for advice and opportunities. When I was in New York or in Los Angeles doing different appearances, if I had time on my schedule, I tried to meet with executives.

I remember that I started playing brass - not so much because I had a calling but because I thought it looked cool.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

I aspired to playing at Glastonbury, not just the Camden Palais.

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.

My dream when I was at Barca was to play at Camp Nou and I did - just not wearing the shirt I'd expected when I was little.

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.