Quotes About Ambition

I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.

Ad Astra' is a visually beautiful film but the story is the interesting part.

Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.

That desire to compete is almost a physical addiction.

I think winning becomes addictive.

You want to win more when you win. That's the thing about winning, it becomes addictive.

If, at the end of the day, you cannot answer 'yes' to the question, 'Did I do everything I could today to achieve my dream?' then you must adjust.

I admire Cristiano's ambition and his goal-scoring touch.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

Each success gives me the adrenaline to move to another film.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

I do wish my career had kept going. I think sometimes people think that we know everything in advance. We don't.

I would love to do something that takes me on an adventure. I really want to do it all.

Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

The only real goal I had was, I wanted to own a car. Because my father, most of the time, he couldn't afford a car. Once in a while he would have a car, but it would be 10 or 15 years old, an old jalopy.

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.