Quotes About Ambition

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

I think in my time in AEW, I haven't been put in a very prominent position.

Bayern has always played a prominent role in my dreams.

I wanted to be a prominent actress and for that I really worked hard.

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can't lose.

Maybe I'll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.