Quotes About Ambition

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It's my favorite place. It's my heart; it's my soul.

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

I think 2020 can still be my time.

Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.

At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.

I'm only competing with myself.

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

I kind of knew inside that I wanted to try comedy, but it was a mystery. How do you start? So when I hit 30 and I had done everything I wanted to do in journalism, so I went to a comedy class. I figured I'd learn how to do five minutes and see how it feels.

I've never been career-oriented. Did I ever want to be a star? What's a star? Is that something in the heavens? That's the only definition that comes to my mind. And the most important goals in my life have been to move gently, to be at ease with the mystery of what it's all about.

I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

It's a myth that you can have it all. You can't, but more importantly, I don't think you should want to. It sounds exhausting!