Quotes About Ambition

For one thing, there is no guarantee that I am even going to work again. I hope I will and will go on to have a long career.

I want to keep running. I don't ever want this journey to finish. And for that to happen, you can't put too much of your brain in doing things and can't connect too many dots because, anyway, there is no guarantee of anything.

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

When I was young, I wanted to be an actress. I had no idea what that meant, but I just thought it sounded fun.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.

Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.

I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.

I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn't really expect it to be a career path.

I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

I had no intention of being an actor.

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.