Quotes About Ambition

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

I never wanted to be road comic.

It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

The comic book world is a tough business.

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

My goals aren't really commercial success.

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I used to want to write commercials as a kid.

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.

Because I was happy in my space, I was doing commercials, masala films, love stories... But somewhere as an actor I wanted to push myself to reach a large audience and play a different role.

Shaking the commissioner's hand has always been a big thing for me. When you're young and you watch the draft every year, you're like, 'That's going to be me one day.'