Quotes About Ambition

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

I know there are some powerful people in the industry who don't want me to do well.

I think that dreamers are the most powerful people in the world.

America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.

That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

I've never crossed over to be a big star. I'd like to be in a big $100 million movie, though. 'Cause I was in an 'Austin Powers,' I think I had two lines, and every once in a while, I get a check, a really nice check, for that movie.

The 'Will Powers' story is like my life to a certain degree.

It's a dream to play for England, so if I'm selected, I'd look forward to playing. But it's down to the powers above me.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire to teach the world how to become successful, Napoleon Hill devoted nearly his entire adult lifetime creating practical content entrepreneurs need to become successful.

I do not make decisions based on emotion, because it is my career and I would like to be more practical when it comes to career.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

My mom is very practical, and she originally wanted me to have something to fall back on. She was a little fearful of my becoming an actor because she didn't see it as a way to make a living. My dad, who was born and raised in Cuba, was really cool with it.