Quotes About Ambition

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

I've never had a plan for any of this: there was never a plan for, 'Right, I must get on the TV,' 'Right, I must have my own show,' 'Right, I must be a movie star.' I don't think like that. I haven't ever had that sort of interest.

Hell, I might want to be like some other people and become a movie star or join the UFC. You never know.

I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.

My dream was to go to Hollywood and become a movie star, and it happened. This country is geared toward that. When an actor can become president, anything can happen.

Once, I wanted to be a movie star. I just had to wait until I turned into an actor and then things started to work out.

I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.

I'm going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.

I was never destined to be a movie star, and I'm happy not being one.

I don't have ambitions to be a movie star or multi-millionaire.

I feel like I'm at the point in my career where I'm ready to be the next big funny movie star.

After I finish my basketball career, I join the movie stars.

One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

You want to accomplish everything; there's no limits to what you want to do. You want to do movies. You want to do modeling. You want to be an entrepreneur - you want to enter every aspect of the entertainment business.

Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That's what drives me.

In high school, it was tough for me moving away, going to school and practice while my English wasn't that good and living with a family that I didn't know at all. I had to make a lot of sacrifices, but my dad always told me if I wanted this - if I really wanted to get to the NBA - that I would have to make sacrifices in my life.

I just want to keep winning and moving forward.

I'm moving forward to do the best.

When you are at Real, it's a challenge every day. I'm like that, I need these high goals to keep moving forward.

As far as me, I'm just looking forward to the future. There's a lot of people that look to the past. I've learned from the past, absolutely. I know my past absolutely. I'm not discrediting or... ignoring my past in any way, but my focus has always been moving forward, moving forward into the future.

I knew Kobe pretty well and he was a guy that was always moving forward.

I set a goal for myself in being an actor and moving out to L.A., and I really felt I had achieved it when I landed 'Shameless.'

I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.