Quotes About Ambition

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was something that I loved and that I wanted to do.

You know when you believe in Christmas? I was like that with ballet. I thought I would reach a level where I'd have enough money to bring my family back together, and I would have freedom.

Some of my friends were going to dancing school and, when one of them was auditioning for a ballet school in Kiev, my mother saw an opportunity for me to do that, so we could move to a bigger, better city.

I go to bed really late - if I just sleep I won't have a life outside ballet.

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

My boys are Balls - they expect to win.

My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.

I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

It's a lot of people's goal to be the lead in a movie, and that was never my goal. I just wanted to be the third banana in an ensemble comedy.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'

No matter who you are, and no matter what you've accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn't still feel like they're banging their head against some wall over something in their way.

I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

I would love to have a Divas Money in the Bank. That would be cool.

Forget about getting a bank balance and don't be satisfied with things being good enough. Accept only that which is good or the best.

Everyone wants the biggest car, the biggest bank account, the biggest house. I don't want any part of that.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.