Quotes About Ambition

I was going to be a comedian but then also winning Oscars and directing movies and creating my own charities and saving the world. The more I've let go of that... I see more access to possibly being able to have something like that.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

I want to continue working in Mexico, but I'd also like to work in other countries eventually, too. Working behind the camera is interesting for me, too.

That's something I've always wanted to do, compete against other countries.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

I've worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.