Quotes About Ambition

For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.

Ever up and onward.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

I want to open a restaurant.

I hoped 'Starlet' would finally open doors for me and lead to a much bigger budgeted movie, but that didn't happen.

I am on 'Bigg Boss' only because it can open doors to the Hindi film industry for me.

Fighting is just something that's gonna open doors for things to come in the future.

People assume because you're a comedian that you want to be an actor or that you want to be a writer too. It is a very cool kind of open-ended place to enter because I don't know if I ever really imagined myself working in a writers room or acting in that capacity.

Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.

I was the first in my family to go to college, and so, growing up, I thought that dressing well opened doors.

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

After a two-year stint at Stars, I wanted to start my own full-service restaurant, but I didn't have the funds to do so, so I got a modest loan from my parents and opened Chipotle with the goal of having it fund that restaurant.

When I told my friends and family that I was leaving Stars to open a burrito shop in Denver, they thought I was crazy, but not long after the success of the first Chipotle, I knew I had to open just one more, so I opened a second one on Colorado Boulevard, which turned out to be even busier than the first.

'Dragons' Den' and 'The Apprentice' have opened people's eyes to what they can do.

Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few.