Quotes About Ambition

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

There's no one way to the top. Make your own opportunities. See around corners. Raise your hand for assignments.

I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then 'Coronation Street' came along, and it was the chance of a lifetime.

I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.

The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

Ive actually developed a well of confidence. But would I apply for the 'Financial Times' economics correspondent? No, I would feel I wasnt up there.

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

Having my name on a cosmetics line has always been a dream, one I'm excited to share.

Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

I always want to win at all costs.

Dreaming costs nothing, no?

I think if you want be a big team and stay a big team, it costs money. Whether you like it or not, it doesn't matter.

I'll fight anyone I can beat. I'm a businessman first and a boxer second. I'm looking for the readies. The aim is to win at all costs.

I got to a point I was so focused on getting a title shot all the thought in my head was to go out there and win at all costs, so maybe it made me fight a certain way, maybe take a lot of risks and stuff like that.

Yes, I would love to step outside the costume drama category and play a young urbanite, something closer to who I am.

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

I'm not trying to just sit on the couch for a year.