Quotes About Ambition

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.

When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

I was offered 10-12 films during the time that we were working on 'Paani.'

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

Milan offered me something. I was very interested by the project. It did not happen for many reasons.

I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me, but I've always wanted to be a part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

After having acted in films down south, I always wanted to work on the small screen but couldn't say yes to everything that was being offered to me.

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.

The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.