Quotes About Ambition

Ashley Wagner

When you're a young player, and you're starting to scratch your potential, you don't know how good you can be.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

I see a lot of people who just want to get on the TV screens, no matter if there is talent or not.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

At the end of the day, if you're living by fear, you're gonna get screwed in Hollywood.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

Luckily for me, I get a lot of acting-oriented scripts.

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

Good scripts, which are apt for me, eventually come to me.

'EastEnders' changed everything. I was a jobbing actress living in Stepney, and I was on the dole at one point. Then people started to send me scripts, which was always my dream.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If I couldn't be an actor, I would only consider being an astronaut, a sea otter, or a gynecologist.