Quotes About Ambition

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I'd never work again. So I'm going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn't let me do.

The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

I had to work from a young age.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.