Quotes About Ambition

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

I do this for her and my family. This is my way of paying my mom back by going after my goals relentlessly and trying to win that Oscar one day.

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled in us that nothing worth having comes easy.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.