Quotes About Ambition

I love Cleveland; I'll always want to fight there. But there's a lot going on in New York. I'd like to go somewhere I'm not known as well.

I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children's theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, 'that's where I want to be.'

They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.

I'm trying to be the Dr. Dre of Cleveland.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

You don't have to be too clever to know that if Barcelona loaned me to another team, it's because they have little interest in me.

I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.

I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.

It may sound very cliched but seriously, since childhood I always wanted to be an actress.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

It is cliched, but you have to beat the best to be the best.

Talent is a very cliched word. Hard work is the key and I am a very hard working person.

It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

I wanted to play Dina. I was my managers most annoying client as I kept saying that I needed to get this part.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

It's like a living process. You start out, and you see the Eiger north face, and you think, 'That's impossible.' Then you start to dream. Then you climb the Eiger north face. Then maybe you go to the Himalaya.

The only reason I want to climb up the rankings - beating the champion and beating guys in the top five - those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That's the only reason why.

I think part of my business problems stemmed from a feeling that I had to be more than a good climber, that I had to do something more 'meaningful.' And that may come from my father.