Quotes About Ambition

My dream was never necessarily comedy. I really wanted to make film or television and was interested in darker stuff over comedy, but I knew I liked dark comedies.

I've been turned down by so many things in Hollywood, and the world itself is only getting darker.

I've been in the Concorde, I've seen the curvature of the Earth, the beginning of the darkness. I want more - I want to go up there.

I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better.

My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire.

It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when you're going to do it. As a child, you never know the date or that one person who's going to take you to the next person, who is going to put you in position and give you that one opportunity.

I don't have time to date.

I'm not dating anyone until I get my career where I want it to be.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

My mom told me I could do anything I want, be anyone I want. I believed it. And so I want my daughters to as well.

Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.

I wrote 'Kamala and Maya's Big Idea' because I don't want my daughters to think in euphemisms.

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.

It's always daunting to start from scratch, but it's exactly what I love about my job.

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

I see a David West score 47, and yeah, it'd be cool to put up numbers like that. But I don't need that to make me happy.

All I can do is keep doing the best I can, and every opportunity I get, I'll try to put balls in like David Beckham.

I always wanted to play Davis Cup.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

I never get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.