Quotes About Ambition

My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.