Quotes About Ambition

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.

If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

I think of me being a painter eventually.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I wanted to be a painter.

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for four years and he gave me a lot of time off to train and to play non-league football and that was where I was finally spotted.

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

Look, I'm an A-list actress in Pakistan. I work with only A-listers.

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.