Quotes About Ambition

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

I will direct films be it my own productions or outside. It's not like I am here only to direct Salman.

I have always wanted to work with Rajshri Productions.

I am not in competition with anybody; I just want to be productive.

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.

I don't feel productive if I'm not working a lot.

When I grew up, my father used to say that cricket is not a profession, cricket cannot bring you food. But I think he lived to see the day when I was actually paid.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

In any profession, you can't reach the top without loving what you do.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

I don't think I was ever cut out for a 9 to 5 white collared profession.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.