Quotes About Ambition

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

I was the All-American kid, or so I told myself - good grades, never in trouble, bright future, well-respected by my peers. My favorite comedian was Bob Newhart.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

I didn't have, like, any way to penetrate organized sports. So I decided at that point that I had to be rich. If I was rich I could just buy a team and run it.

It's a little bit embarrassing to say but... I wanted to be a penguin.

I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

Kangana didn't have a penny when I met her.

I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.

I've always been someone who has wanted to fight and to scrap for every penny I could.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to have a good salary and a pension plan. If I could've guaranteed that I'd be a best-selling writer, that would've been one thing, but nobody could say that. So I knew better than to say that was ambition.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.