Quotes About Ambition

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

I don't try to please anybody. I try to win.

I race to win, not to please people.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

To all the young generation in the Philippines, please dream high.

From now on, we want to put on even cooler performances, be cooler, be better, so look forward to it. Please, always look forward to it.

It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition as Manchester City.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.