Quotes About Ambition

As soon as you come to Mumbai, get a job, then start your struggle. That's what I did.

Don't leave your job without getting an acting offer. Very few people in the industry are lucky to get a film without much struggle and be successful.

I think we all have moments when we struggle with motivation.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

I started playing in goal because I 'struggled to run as fast as the strikers and the other players out there. I was 10 years old.

I've always been the one who struggled financially, so now it's so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.

I really struggled with doing nine-to-five and just wanted to do something where it felt like I was in charge and I was doing something creative. I imagine if the first gig had gone badly I'd never have done it again. I imagine there's hundreds of people who could have been really great comedians and just had a bad first gig.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

I struggled for so long to try to create a career.

Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.