Quotes About Ambition

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

I'm usually a pretty intense person. Give me an inch, and I'm going to go.

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.

It's important to me that I'm more than a pretty face or another person starring in movies. That's great, but there's so much more than can and should be done.

I am looking for strong characters rather than being just a pretty girl. Actresses can do so much more than looking good.

I've worked really hard to bring something more to 'pretty girl' roles over the years. I consider it a challenge.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.

I just love fighting. I know I'm not the best, but I'm still pretty good, there's a lot of people I can still beat. What do you do. What else am I supposed to do? I have no other skills. I enjoy doing this. There's nothing I'd really rather do, you know?

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

I always set myself huge goals each year, and I'm pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

I always wanted to be an actress. I think that is something that I could be pretty good at.

If you can be the best from Queensbridge and actually make it out, then you must be pretty good.