Quotes About Ambition

My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of cancer. I remember in the middle of shooting going, 'Oh my God! Why did I decide to do this?' But people noticed me in it and I started getting invited to castings.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

I do a little of several things like writing, teaching and political organizing, but none of them as well as I would like.

I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.

I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s.

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

I always wanted to live here in America and originally moved to Los Angeles to study acting.

I originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and trained for years, but when I was around 18, I realized I wasn't going to be as good a ballet dancer as I'd hoped I'd be and decided to become an actress instead.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it.

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

I haven't felt like I ever had a chance to blossom into the player and the person I want to be in Orlando. It's almost like I've been held down every time.

Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.

I want to buy my mother a huge house in New Orleans so she can open up a bed and breakfast.

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.