Quotes About Ambition

I don't think I'll ever become a pop star.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

I never wanted to be a pop star.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

I would like to be Pope if I could.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

I'm not out there to win a popularity contest. I'm out there to win basketball games.

In a population of over one billion, there are 12-15 names that have the potential to be main leads in Hindi films. I am within the minority of the minority.

China, if they decide to do something, they do it. Not only in football but whatever it is. If you think about the billion population, there must be Messis or Ronaldos out there. There must be many talented football players out there.

When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.