Quotes About Ambition

It's really the striving-the person becomes aware that whatever he is striving for becomes the cost.

The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.

Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin' -- this is Hollywood.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

the schist pyramids can leave us contrite. Greatness is in the intention; and not in dimensions.

Success is somebody else's failure.

Dreams take short cuts.

When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

He thought it essential for youngsters to develop tenacity "so there's never an idle moment

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!

But one thing she'd learned was that if a girl didn't ask, a girl wouldn't get.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.

We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.

Instead, you let your massive ego get in the way. You wanted center stage, the spotlight on you, over everything else, even if staying behind the curtain would have ultimately been in your best interest.

Yeah," Snell said, waving a Ferrari past the truck but looking at Eve as he did it, "the same people you're giving blow jobs to every day to get your TV show. The only difference between you and Detective Garvey is that he earned his badge and doesn't have to betray other cops to get ahead.

Of course not. It's all on you. I'm the fat old guy who has been here for decades, proven he's a stand-up guy, and is on his way out. I'm blameless. You're the young, attractive publicity whore who doesn't care how many careers you have to ruin, or deputies you have to kill, to get to the top." "My God, is that what people are actually saying?

I know I look like I'd rather be outside surfing, or climbing a mountain, or running a marathon than sitting here with you, but don't be fooled. I'm as serious about my job as you are about yours," he said. "I'm only asking for another thirty minutes today. What's the big rush?

All I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama.