Quotes About Ambition

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I want it all: I want the attention and live for the glory nights.

I have a crazy work schedule, I don't eat good food, and I often work through nights, but I am just doing what I love.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

I had to build my name here by doing talent nights, talent competitions and networking and meeting all the working girls and figure out how to work this animal of New York City.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever.

When people ask what college I graduated from, I say: I didn't graduate from college. I graduated from Nike. I started my career as an intern getting coffee.

When I first left Nike to go work with LeBron and manage him, I was really bullish about managing other athletes. I really wanted to get more athletes besides LeBron and build this big management practice. And in hindsight that was a mistake.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

Nine out of 10 English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes.

I would love to have eight or nine kids with Gerard - my own futbol team.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal.

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.

I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year.