Quotes About Ambition

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.