Quotes About Ambition

You learn that you can never not work. If you really want to make it to the big leagues, there's no such thing as "I'll start this first thing Monday" - you gotta do it now.

The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

In my work and what I do, I am Queen of the Universe every day!

I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life..."

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

I would like to work with a great producer who I haven't met yet. I'm not sure who he is, but I'm looking for someone to take me to the next level.