Quotes About Ambition

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

I always wanted to do musical theater. That was where I saw my life going since I was a musical theater major in college before I went to Pentatonix.

I was like, 'I'm only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I'm never going to do TV.' And whenever I'd get auditions for TV, I'd be like, 'Okay, whatever. I've got a lisp, so they're not going to take me.' And then I started doing this, and I guess it was my sister that got me into the acting thing.

I started dancing at age three and then got involved in musical theatre and acting around age seven. I think I've probably known since then that I want to be a professional actor.

When you're young, it's hard to see the reality behind such a demanding career, but I loved it, and I couldn't see myself doing anything else. So in my mind, from the minute I had to seriously start thinking about my future, I knew musical theatre was it for me.

Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.

I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we'd never been to England at that point, so musically it's kind of sometimes hard to place where we're from.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

I would love to do Broadway. That was my original aim, when I first started acting when I was 13. I wanted to do stage; I wanted to do musicals.

I love musicals; I just couldn't book one to save my life.

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock.

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.