Quotes About Ambition

The thing where I've always been lucky is, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

The day I was born, I knew I was going to act! Okay, that can sound a bit exaggerated, but I knew I want to enter films when I started understanding the world of films and saw my father going on sets. Maybe when I was just a kid.

Most of the time when I don't set goals, I always exceed whatever goal people have.

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.

I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it.

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

I'm exceptional in everything that I do and I aspire to do.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

I am very excited about the future.

I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.

We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

I just want to execute a good 200 m. and see what is the best I can do.

I want to be the number one player in the world, right? But at the end of the day you have to go through each individual step and be able to execute each individual step to be able to get to that goal.

If I were to run for something, it would be something in New York, on the executive side.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

Bayern exists only to win, but to win in style, too. Winning 2-1 is not enough. We have to win 5-0.

Competition exists everywhere.

Expect more than others think possible.

I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

People expect a lot for me now, and I will achieve that.