Quotes About Ambition

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again.

I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.

What I really want is an Oscar.

Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.

After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.

You can win your Oscar, and you still wake up trying to figure out how to get your next job.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

I'd love to one day win an Oscar just as much as one day I'd like to win a Grammy.

When I was much younger, I used to practice my Oscar speech in the mirror. I used to beg my parents to be in movies.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.