Quotes About Ambition

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

I was in a comfortable situation, I was on tour, it was cool, but it wasn't at all what I wanted to do. So I had to leave it, start over. My friends were like, 'You were doing something, now you're back at day one.' So people kind of look at you different when you start over. Everyone needs to challenge themselves like that.

I wanted to be great, that's from day one.

It's a challenge, and I like challenges. That's how it's been in my career since Day One.

From day one in summer league, I had a chip on my shoulder.

I want to be dominant from day one.

I've been competitive from day one. It's in my nature. Whether people recognize that or not, I don't know how they can't. I'm not gonna go out there and try to hurt somebody or win by all means. But if it's up in the air, I'm gonna try harder than you to get it done.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

I've been trying to be champion since day one.

In the day-to-day, one only thinks about his club in training and trying to be in the starting line-up.

Even if you're working a day-to-day job in the meantime to support your creative endeavors, you shouldn't give up, and make sure you don't lose focus.

Luckily, I have a thing inside me that I wake up and I am happy every day. But boys and girls want to live the dream and are looking at everything you do on a day-to-day basis.

Pressure always has to be present in our day-to-day and we have to be under pressure to improve every day.

I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

I think if I had a choice, I'd like to be in a film with De Niro.

Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

I want to play in the NBA. I'm dead serious.

Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.