Quotes About Ambition

It's no secret that this is the only place I've ever wanted to work. When people ask me where I went to school, I tell them WWE University.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

I like to work and am a focused person.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

You work for whatever you get in life.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

I don't have to be a "gazillionaire;" what's important to me is to just being able to work.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

I work whenever I'm let.

I really hope that I get to work with Chris [Nolan] some day.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.