Quotes About Ambition

The whole idea behind going ahead with this Chisora fight was that a victory may then lead to a fight with Vitali Klitschko.

You've got to understand, I'd been trying to get to Victory Lane my whole career.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

I am a hardcore VH1 lover and always have this dream of featuring in an English music video of VH1.

I would love to work with Karlie Kloss and model for Chanel. And I would love to be in a music video with Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift, my two favorite artists.

My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.

I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.

When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.

I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my first video camera, and I would make movies, but I never made a movie that I finished until I was in college. There was no expectation, but I would make movies every day.

I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting.

The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year.

It's hard to be so mentally competitive and when you're not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn't work like that. I don't think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive - if it's playing a video game, if it's playing cards.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

I always knew I wanted to be in the NBA and play myself in a video game. That was my goal when I was a kid.

You can't just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living.

I just wanted to make video games.

I don't like people getting the best of me or saying that they beat me. Every game I play, every competition I'm in, whether it's in a game, playing cards, video games, whatever it is, I'm trying to win. That's always been my competitive nature.

When I was young, a little guy, I always played videogames, NHL, and always paid attention to the photo on the box. I always wanted to have my photo there.

All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.

I know how to make myself hot. I can drop my own music. I can shoot my own videos.

When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.

I was working in commercials and music videos, always with the goal of working in feature films.