Quotes About Ambition

I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city.

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

I want to work on something other than love stories.

People, in general, want to improve their lives and the lives of their children and other loved ones.

I'm in this sport to change my life. I'm in this sport to change my parents' lives and the loved ones around me. That's really what I care about. And I can't do that if they keep putting me on these prelims.

As for my personal ambitions, I always loved playing for England and always felt I did well.

I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.

We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.

I don't want to play for any team. I prefer playing for a lower team and playing against the best. I don't like playing with them: I want to play against them... and beat them.

All my life I've been ranked lower than I thought I should be.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

Lucas is living the life that I wanted, but I want to be clear, I don't feel there's been any pressure for him to live it.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.

We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.

I always had dreams, my whole life, of being somebody special. Someone out in the world that everybody knew of and everybody liked. Somebody unique. Even when I was down on my luck, in my head I still had those dreams.

I could've easily gone the other way, but luckily, I had football and the dream to play in the NFL so I could do something positive with my life.

I think you should do what you like, and luckily, I am able to make money out of them.

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.

I didn't think I ever knew how one managed to be so lucky as to work in this industry. It was a dream I was a little bit embarrassed by.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

I didn't think acting would be a lucrative career.

Luke Rockhold is the guy I want to face.