Quotes About Ambition

You can really put yourself out there in front of the world, make a name for yourself in international cricket.

I am a cricket lover and wanted to be a cricketer.

Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.

I wanted to bat for the England cricket team. I was quite good at cricket. But then I kept getting out for low scores. It turned out I didn't have the talent.

To be honest I wasn't very good at football. I loved cricket and when I started making some big scores for my boys' team, I dreamed of becoming the next Border.

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

I cried all the way to the bank.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

From what I came from, all the negative criticism - that keeps me from embracing that title of being the best. Because I always feel like there is another level I have to get to.

Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.

I'm going to get criticized my whole career.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

I'm not worried about what the critics say, or how they feel I should go with my career.

Maybe one day I could make a film which works at the box-office and the critics also like it.

It would be a dream if I was able to fight in Croatia.

Playing against Croatia would be a dream come true.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction to winning.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.