Quotes About Ambition

People were like, 'You're crazy. You're going to lose all your credibility and fans.' But I wanted to try new things and make my own music. So I became a producer.

I didn't understand that I couldn't just leave and become sort of a semi-regular. I had to be sat down by the line producer, Carol Himes, in my dressing room and told, 'I hear you're thinking about going to college.'

I want to be an executive producer.

When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.

Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.

I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.

I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.

My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.

I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.

I think my brother always wanted to be a film producer.

Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.