Quotes About Ambition

I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one.

A Ballon d'Or nomination is one of the best things you can achieve as a player but I want to achieve more and more.

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies.

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

Mum worked nonstop, doing two, sometimes three, jobs throughout the 80s.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

My dad's not the most normal thinking person. It's not normal to need to make millions or billions of dollars.

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

You have competition all over the world, not only in football, in normal life, too. Everyone fights for his place, but in the end, we have many games to play, and everybody is going to play games.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

I was determined that I was going to have a successful and normal life.

Normal people don't become stand-up comedians.