Quotes About Ambition

When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's not something that just happens - one in a million shot - all those things that just make you feel like it'll never happen.

I see a lot of myself in a young Mike Vrabel. He is very competitive. He is very respectful of the game, but he looks at each opportunity as an opportunity to prove something that people don't think you can do, and he'll create that narrative.

I got a hold of NASA, four times, I said, 'I want to become an astronaut.' But nobody would take me. I didn't think that I would ever get to go up.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.

I thought I'd go into law or something. I always loved NASCAR, but I didn't view it as a business opportunity.

I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

It wasn't until I became involved with 'Nashville' that I thought I had opportunities to record my music in a way that I would want to put it out into the world.

There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like Garth Brooks, so I moved to Nashville when I was 18 to chase a dream.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.

When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

I was so intimidated being on 'Nashville,' and acting is so much harder than it seems. But I'm always open to any opportunity that someone brings me.

I could put in garage doors or work in McDonald's but that's it. So I figured I might as well play the Nashville game.

Politics is a nasty business.

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.