Quotes About Ambition

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

Honestly, it takes a lot of dedication and sacrifice. When I was trying to get better a couple years ago, I was not going out. I had a couple of people get mad at me. I wasn't going out and partying, I was just doing what I had to do to get better.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

I had a dream to be an attorney. I don't know if I ever would've passed the bar or not, but that was my dream.

When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

It's obvious that I want to reach Cerrone's win record, I know that's important for my career. Those milestones last forever, even if someone passes you later, they are forever.

I just want to look better by each passing day.

After passing out of the National School of Drama, I spent many years doing small-time roles in Bollywood.

Who wouldn't want to be the all-time passing leader in FCS? Or in school history? At the end of the day, if that's something I accomplish, that's awesome.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end

How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

passed through that magical and mysterious looking glass that comes with fame and success, on the far side of which people come to you unbidden and ask if they can give you what you want.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

after watching Hitler return from Munich in the evening of 30 June: 'Depend on it, it is precisely this Hitler going on his way over heaps of bodies, whom they [the generals] have yearned for in their deepest heart of hearts.'83

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.