Quotes About Ambition

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

I am not in a hurry, I don't want to become a star overnight.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

It's my one aim, my dream to win a series overseas.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

Once I went overseas and had this real motivation to get back, I was willing to do whatever it took to stick in this league, and that's what I did.

If I were to do something here in Australia that did travel overseas, for sure, I would like to work anywhere in the world.

You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.

Of course, I want to try and overtake the record of goals scored in European cups with the Rossoneri shirt.

My goal is not to overtake Tinder or compete with Tinder. To be fully honest with you, I think Tinder is a great product. It's still my baby at the end of the day. So I wish it continued success. I still have equity in Tinder.

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

There are a lot of things people are calling me, and I'm overwhelmed. I have a lot of gratitude, but I just want to keep doing what I'm in love with, which is acting.

I get a bit overwhelmed by the number of shows I haven't seen, that are still on my bucket list.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

You know, I think anybody who has a dream to do something, that dream will keep you warm in the coldest of nights. You know what I mean? When you're like most lonely... that dream needs to be nurtured and cultivated so, even if you never speak to another person again in your life, that thing, that dream has to keep you company. So I would pour everything into that dream.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Career is just posh slavery.

It was as though the problems of the Republic bored the man appointed to solve them, as though Rome herself were now too small a stage for his ambitions

Coloured marble, pompous avenues, urban planning: what were these, if not the prerogatives of kings? No one, in a free republic, could be permitted such sinister grandstanding. This was why, in the last feverish decade before the crossing of the Rubicon, the sudden appearance in Rome of a rash of grandiose monuments had served as portents of the Republic's ruin.