Quotes About Ambition

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

I don't know about other people, but I love to work.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.