Quotes About Ambition

I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow.

As a human, yeah, it's awesome. You grow up and you are in Little League, and you want to make the all-star team; you go to college, and you want to make the all-star team. So any normal person would want to do it on the biggest stage and highest level. And I'm a normal person. I haven't changed there.

When I first arrived at UConn, I told myself I was going to dedicate my life to basketball. And when you do something like that, you alienate a lot of other things in your life that most people think are normal things to do.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't normally have one. I couldn't go on it, because it would be, like, me being lazy, because I've definitely had my opportunities.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I don't want to conquer North America. I only want a share.

In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six stools and two chairs and eight cream pies.

I came from the independent scene, and I've wrestled in front of a crowd of four people in a car lot in 104 degrees in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I grew up in Northern California, all I ever did was race and that's all I was focused on.

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

First Day Out' just took off under our noses. I was shocked. I was happy. I can't even explain the feeling. It's something I always wanted my whole life.

I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'

When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.