Quotes About Ambition

Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.

Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

Money is important, but it's not the only driving factor for me.

At Sterling, we're not looking to become a dominating factor in the market. We're looking for an area to carve out for ourselves. We want to become another BMW.

When you see the kids on 'Britain's Got Talent' or 'The X Factor' who just want to be famous at all costs, you just go, 'God, these people just don't know what it is they're asking for.'

You want your assistants to move up. But you want it to be a hard decision. You want them to only be willing to leave if they're walking into a dream situation. You don't want money to ever be a factor.

If you get someone right out of college - and I meet a lot of them - you're not going to get a lot of experience at all, so you have to feel the ambition and desire, which is based on a lot of factors.

My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.

I'd rather blow up than fizzle out. I don't want to fade away and go down the leagues.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

I don't love to fail.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I'd try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all failed, I was at the bottom of the food-chain anyway.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.