Quotes About Ambition

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I don't want to sound too carried away, but from what I've seen, 'Bingo Long' is going to be a big one. A classic.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

With only one novel to her credit, Anna Jarzab can't quite be classified in Werlin country, but 'All Unquiet Things' is a big step in that direction.

When I left high school - I was younger than my classmates, just 17 - I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, 'When I go to college, I'd rather study something else.'

You can say whatever you want; it doesn't matter. It doesn't faze me. I'll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that's making A's in the classroom or doing well on the field.

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

I think with 'Claws,' it came at such a perfect time where I really started to focus and to take myself seriously.

I want to be the Cassius Clay of snooker. Cassius is the greatest at boxing and that's what I mean to be at snooker.

Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.

I'd just come out of drama school, didn't get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time cleaning job.

I started working for my dad - he had his own company in carpet upholstery cleaning. I was doing whatever he said. It was hard work, it made me grow up and realize that it's not what I wanted to do.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

I went back to high school and decided that I wanted to be a kid for a while, whatever that means, but once again I found myself back with acting, so clearly I couldn't escape the passion.

At the age of 10 I started writing to the BBC about getting into broadcasting. It went on for years. I was 17 when they finally gave in and offered me a job as a bookings clerk in sport and outside broadcast.

When I got cut from Cleveland, they weren't one of the best teams in the NBA at the time, so I had some doubts. I didn't think I was going to get back into the league. I wasn't sure it was going to happen for me.