Quotes About Ambition

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'

A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.

Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day - or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn't a very difficult decision.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

I thought, 'How cool would it be to paint Donald Trump in Donald Trump's house with Donald Trump there.'

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

My dad painted cars for a living, and my mom graduated from college when I was a college freshman myself.

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.