Quotes About Ambition

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

Business is the most exciting game.

I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

Now I got my foot - through the door - and I ain't goin' no where.

I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.