Quotes About Ambition

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time.

All of us are in search of something or the other, be it dreams or success.

I was only 26 when I started my career. Those days I only wanted to work. When my films did not work, I didn't know what to do. But I never went to anyone for work. Work came in search of me.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

I have decided that I want one or two seasons in England before the end of my career, and I want it to be at Liverpool.

I grew up with a front row seat to the American dream.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

There was no real plan B. It was like, I'm gonna move back to Seattle and move in with my parents.

At the end of the day, I grew up wanting to play in the SEC.

I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.

Just because I'm not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn't mean I'm not working.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.

When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.