Quotes About Ambition

There are different reasons why I wanted to try AFL - some of them family reasons and others were more personal ones.

Do you want to be famous, or do you want to have actual money to take care of your family down the line? I'd say it's a case by case call there. Some guys fight for different reasons. What do you fight for? Do you fight for this reason or for that reason.

There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.

As an actor, you always have aspirations to play different roles.

I've played so many different roles over more than 15 years, but I still hope to play more various characters.

Friends can have different dreams and do different things.

There are a million different things that I want to do.

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

You have to stay open, and things may come at different times, but I have to dream big, and that's what I'm going to be doing.

I am looking at acting in a different way now. I always looked at it as equity to build the other things I was doing; now, I consider it a career.

I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.

I want to do films that will make an impact and project me in a different way.

It's hard to be at your best and to know exactly what is your best at all times because even when you do see yourself, you think you could be better, and you often feel that there is something you could have done differently.

Things work very differently in Bollywood. There is a lot of camping there.

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

I think the fundamental issue with comedians is everyone wants to be a famous comedian. That's a really difficult thing to achieve in comedy.

You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.

I'm a go-getter. It's in my DNA. If I spend a lot of time lamenting on the difficulties, then it could be distracting.

There are filmmakers who get lucky with the first film itself, and then there are some of us who have to face difficulties.

I always think about the difficulties I had to make sure I don't get too comfortable.

Difficulty does not deter me. In fact, I find challenges exciting.

I had difficulty working for other people.

Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.

Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.