Quotes About Ambition

The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.

Yeah, I want these fights where people are going to stand in front of me and I'm going to knock them out. But is that going to be best for me in the long run? Probably not. I want those situations and knockouts and submissions against guys who won't just give them to me.

I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student - but I knew I was never going to be picked up.

I was always ready to submit my life to my career - but I don't think anything could have truly prepared me for the reality of that.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I'd scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.

I hope to get roles that are not just glamorous, but also have some substance.

I have decided to take on substantial roles. I'm even ready to take on roles which give prominence to glamour; I have absolutely no qualms in doing so.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.

At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.

Talking about myself, I get only two to three projects a year but let me tell you they are substantial projects.

I think it's possible to bag substantial roles in meaningful cinema despite being a mother. My role in Yagavarayinum ' is the best example.

I have been wanting to do a substantial role for quite sometime.

I'm eagerly looking forward to substantial roles from Kollywood filmmakers.

If something substantial comes my way - a very meaty and major role - which I would love to do, then of course one can make time for that.