Quotes About Ambition

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.

'Cuckoo's Nest' was my first film, and I had wanted to do film for some time, but somehow I had not clicked. I would go in for interviews or readings, and I never had the sense that I was anywhere near what they were looking for.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

If you can imagine you have thought about something your whole life, and you have invested everything you have got into achieving that moment, and then the ball hits the back of the net for England and you are wearing the number nine shirt.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

I want to make my own Netflix originals.

If I get the chance to coach Netherlands, I would like to take that chance.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.

I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.

I've literally pitched to every studio and network trying to get directing work. It's really hard.

I'm always networking, that's the name of the game.

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I never expect business to be easy.

We never expect to go to No 1 - though of course we always hope to.

Work extremely hard, but as you continue to rise up the ladder, never forget your roots or where you came from or the people that helped you along the way. Humility takes people the farthest.