Quotes About Ambition

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

Everyday I wake up I'm fulfilling my dream. Every day my manager calls I'm fulfilling my dream. I know if my manager doesn't call I'm not making money so when he does call I know I'm making money.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

A business can be started with very little money.

Money is a poor indicator of success.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.