Quotes About Ambition

I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something . . . anything.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

Man works to be wealthy, but gambles to be rich.

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

Minä olen tuhkimus! Raivoisa tuhkimus!

Quando ero bambino mi accorsi che non avevo la linea della fortuna sulla mano e allora presi il rasoio di mio padre e zac... Me ne feci una come volevo.

Progress is not motivated by money. Progress comes from those who are happy to embark on a course of action without quite knowing where it will lead, without doing a feasibility study, without fear of failure or too much hope of reward.

She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and yet her dreams still seem far from being realised.

To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butter over it.

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Always Hungry and Stay Hungry.

Why didn't I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams were blank. But after twenty-five years of writing, I have come to understand that those pages are never blank. (Orhan Pamuk)

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

I just want to be rich and famous.

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.