Quotes About Ambition

The first time I met Harlan Ellison, we were both unpublished young punks in Cleveland, Ohio.

All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

I kind of had that Parma, Ohio, mentality that after high school, you go to college. Then after college, you get a job; then you get a family. And after that, you just stick around Parma.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

My goal is to always be a transformational leader, and to go big. And when you go big, you don't always win. And I'm OK with that.

What people want to know is, OK, what's after modeling? It's not just OK anymore to model until you're 25 and then stop and be a housewife.

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.

My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.

It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

As long as I get to do the kind of work I want to do, I am okay with being a Z-lister.

I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.