Quotes About Ambition

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.

I couldn't wait to leave school. So I did it as soon as I possibly could at 16. I had no clue what I wanted to do next other than being at school wasn't it and that I was desperate to make my own way as soon as I could.

Post 'Pink,' I figured out which direction I want my career to take.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right jokes. I want everyone to like me all the time.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I will never go to the Centre. I have never been an aspirant for any post or for any role at the Centre.

Post 'Shaitan,' I felt frustrated, as I was not getting the kind of work that I wanted to do.

Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.

I want to be an offensive player, too. Play low post, midrange, take jump shots, and just be the best I can be.

Post 'Laila Majnu,' I was just sitting at home because I wanted to be part of a story that is as special as 'Bulbbul.'

I was a good student and dreamt of becoming a doctor. But post my completing Class XII from Rizvi College, my parents separated so I had to discontinue my education as I had to financially support my mother and sister.

If I was just a creator, I would still be back in the Lincoln annex in the Post Office.

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer - but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It's pretty cool.

I am the poster boy for brick-by-brick foundation building. Play a club. Put on a good show for 35 people. Come back. Build your market. Have people talk about you.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn't bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white.

I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

When I was just 13 years old, I even painted cinema posters.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be on posters. I want to be good.

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.