Quotes About Ambition

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.

Becoming a musician is a strange thing. It's not all cupcakes and ice cream. You're trying to master an instrument, and you sometimes can't tell if you're getting better. You love it, but you also hate it.

I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.

When you're getting to do what you want to do, you just assume you're going to hit a point where someone is like, 'No, you can't do that.' Strangely, that never happened.

I'm looking for the thing that is different from the antagonist in 'Stranger Things,' different from the protagonist in 'Power Rangers,' and something that will really continue these two amazing opportunities I've been given.

Like everybody, I started out doing 'bringer' shows - the kind where if you show up with a certain number of people, you get to perform. Sometimes I would actually pay strangers off the street to come in and see my set.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a bank. I want to rob a bank in a film. I want to rob a bank in a film but do it with a gun - with a gun, not with a bomb strapped around me.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

I would like to be strapped to a giant rocket and fired into the heart of the sun.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

With so much at stake, and so many fortunes to be made, benevolent intentions can easily be drowned out. She

Everything he had dreamed of for so long had happened. And it was terrible.

That she did this for Weyland-Yutani troubled her, but she would never have come this far without them. Their resources were limitless.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.