Quotes About Ambition

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

The grass may be greener on the other side, but either way…you've got to mow it.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Creating a scene is thus the staging of a desire.

And if it was a project, would it be a chance to show his talent?

But just as an actor needed a breakout role to become a star, an architect needed a career-making project. And

After the war, it just seemed natural to take what you could take wherever you could take it. There was only so much blood you could sell for $10 a pint. I

Nunz and Sammy were good people. I never cared for Pro himself. He'd kill you for nothing. One time he had a guy kissed for getting more votes than him.

Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I'm at least as bad as that Marlon Brando character and that some day I'd like to get in union work. The Teamsters gave me good job security at Food Fair. They could only fire you if they caught you stealing. Let me put it another way, they could only fire you if they caught you stealing and they could prove it.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness