Quotes About Ambition

It's kind of embarrassing, but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn't want to have to marry somebody in order to do it!

Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

From baby time to now, I wanted to be a Disney princess, and then I wanted to be a singer or an actress.

I'm the Princess of Staten Island. You gotta go big or go home, baby!

Sometimes I think I made a big mistake by not paying more attention to Prince Axel. He was looking for a wife and genuinely cared for me. Well, he had the hots for me is more like it. I would have made a great princess.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.

When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.

When I became a principal at the Royal Ballet it was my childhood goal, a dream and I became it at 19. And then I said 'what's next?' and I set myself a different goal at 19 to become an actor.

I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way off track and it got into college.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles.

I started small with commercials and print.

I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

I remember giving auditions for ad films and I used to wait for hours for my turn to come. I used to go for print shoots for Rs 2000. I used to go to the director's office with my portfolio and the receptionists used to tell me to put it in the post box outside.

I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

I am an actress largely in my living room in Clapham Junction! We have the Hollywood sign printed on the wall, though!

When I wanted a job at Christian Louboutin, I literally printed the entrance of the store I wanted to work at on my wall and looked at it in the morning before I got up and went to work at Children's Shoes.

I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.