Quotes About Ambition

I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I didn't want to be famous.

I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

It's a privilege and honor to write and star in my own comic. I can officially cross that off the bucket list!

Prove to them people that you should have gotten picked earlier, and then you make your money. The privilege is just getting drafted, and once you get picked, prove to them that you were supposed to be drafted.

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn't privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

My goal is to be UFC champion, and my eyes are on that prize.

When I started playing on the beach there was nothing, no prize money at all. I didn't expect there to be any, and I didn't even dream there would ever be money.

You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.

In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn't necessarily have to earn the cash prize.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

For me, football is not about money - I want to win prizes.