Quotes About Ambition

I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

It's okay to say what you want to do.

It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.

It's okay to dream big.

When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'

Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.

It doesn't matter how old you are, with determination you can make your life what you want it to be.

I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

Once I was old enough to realize that the people I thought were inside the TV were actual people, it was like, 'I want to do that.'

It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

I work hard all my life and now I show the people how I come from oldest country in the world to live the America dream.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.

I can remember, actually, seeing the film 'Oliver!' and understanding so badly that I wanted to play that part, but that I would never be able to because I was a 'girl' and Oliver was a 'boy.'

I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as perhaps it should have after that first 'Oliver!' success, but then again I was never really intending to have a career in the professional theatre in the first place.