Quotes About Ambition

I hope through 'The Family Man,' I get some good offers.

If you stop getting work, than it should stress you. If the offers are coming in, than that's okay.

I was doing a show in Bridgeport, Conn., and getting offers for more money from Boston and other cities in the east. But I figured I would hold out for New York. Then one day, I got a call out of the blue from Hollywood from KNX.

When I went from Tottenham to China a lot of people said that was it, my career was over. I had a couple of other offers at the time but they were both loans and I would have had to go back at the end. I just wanted to play.

Directors didn't flood me with offers because I was Subhendu's son. I had to slog to find my foothold.

I've had offers for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, but I do not want to take just any musical. I want the musical that's right for me when I'm right for it.

I am not putting down what is on television, but I don't see myself in that space. Unless someone offers me a 'Shanti,' I would definitely do that.

After 'Mohabbatein', I had many offers and I met many people but I am always searching for that one script which would take me that one step ahead.

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!

Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don't think it makes you happier.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

I think there'll be a little more Cuban coffee in the governor's office once I'm up there.

I was considering running for political office.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

I had dreams of becoming an officer and a gentleman. But hey: One out of two ain't bad.

I think you jump into things without thinking ahead very much because I had never been in an airplane - even in a commercial airliner. I had never flown at all. I just wanted to be commissioned, to be a commissioned officer.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be in business or politics, like a CEO of a big corporation or a U.S. senator. There were also times I wanted to be an astronaut or a military officer. Yes, there were moments when I thought about doing this as a woman.

I wanted to be an IAS officer. Everything has happened by the way.

My mother was very interested for me to become an IAS officer.

If I weren't an actor, I would be an IAS or IPS officer.