Quotes About Ambition

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. When I moved to L.A., that was my dream, because I never really grew up watching comedies, although of course I loved 'Dumb & Dumber.'

I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

I was probably given a bit too much at an early age. I got some big moves and played in big games.

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.

I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.

The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

I remember seeing RuPaul in 'The Brady Bunch Movie,' when she says to Jan, 'Girl, you better work.' And I froze it in my mind forever.

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

There is a scene in the movie with DJ Cutkiller, one of the biggest European DJs from France, and he was scratching like crazy. When I saw that, I was 14, and I was like, 'Yo that's what I want to do. That's crazy.'

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.

I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I had no delusions about myself. I couldn't act - I had never acted. So how could I be a movie star?

I never really thought it would be possible to keep making films. I thought I'd get to a point where it would just stop happening, and I still sort of feel that way. I don't know if any actor feels like they are going to have a career forever, unless they're a movie star.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.