Quotes About Ambition

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

I love the book 'Devil in the White City.'

I've devoted my life to doing what I love: playing football.

Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future for another band next to a band such as Nightwish, and with the ambition to become a mother, I will have to let Revamp go, which is a very sad decision.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths.

We're trying to get away from the three D's: dresses, dolls and diaries.

What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

The competitive spirit never dies.

I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that's because I do something. Big difference.

To make a difference, you have to have large aspirations.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

I get kids from all different cultures and nationalities coming up to me now, all wanting to be F1 drivers. They feel the sport is open to everyone.

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.

I want to do different kinds of roles, and films that make a difference to my career.

I like big challenges. They bring my game to a different level.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.