Quotes About Ambition

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.

I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.

I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad!

I pretty much always stuck to the most interesting part I could play.

Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it.

My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

I was always passionate about the Miss India pageant. Though I was a medical student, I never had a plan B. I dont want to regret anything in life, so it was really important for me to win this competition.

I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.