Quotes About Ambition

I never questioned I would have any trouble doing what I wanted to do. I'm not talking about getting to a certain position - or to success. It was just that I knew I wanted to act, and that I would make my living that way. Having the unconditional support of your parents is really freeing.

My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.

When you're the underdog, you just lay low and work.

I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.

Always being an underdog, always being the player or the person nobody really knew, that always kept a chip on my shoulder.

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.

I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.

Brady Hoke is an underdog. He has an attitude, a chip. He's self-made. He always has something to prove.

I'm always going to feel like the underdog. I feel like that's the kind of mind-set I want to have and if I do lose that mind-set, I want somebody to slap me in the face and say, 'Hey, pick it up and get back to the roots.'

I am in love with stories of underdogs.

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

Initially, when I got into the world of music, I was treated like an underdog.

I love being the underdog sometimes.

I've always been an underdog.

I always consider myself to be the underdog.

In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.

I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

I wanted to go to the underdog team - I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to stay home and do it in front of my family and my friends... Those thing matter to me.

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.

I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.