Quotes About Ambition

I want to die at my desk.

I can't say that while I sat at my desk cold calling or trying to help people re-mortgage that playing for England was a real achievable goal.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

The last thing you want is to be desperate in Hollywood.

I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.

I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.

I find Los Angeles a bit desperate. For me, the energy there is bad.

Obviously getting to work with me is a huge pull, I know there's a lot of big A-listers out there desperate to get screentime with me.

In order to win in the NFL... you've got to be desperate to win a championship.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.