Quotes About Ambition

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos I loved reading, just because I needed those badges.

You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.

I'm living, breathing proof that you can be anything you want to be.

My career's been a bumpy road, but at the same time I think I am living proof that if you put enough work into things you decide more or less where you want to end up.

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role in a film that does not feature a big actor.

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.

Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don't have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn't given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.

It's hard work if you want a proper and a lasting career.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

When people asked me, 'What are you going to do?' I'd say, 'I'm going to be an actor,' without really thinking about it. And I started acting without really thinking about it. I only thought about it properly a bit later.

When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.

My daughter told me that she wants to become an actor even before she learnt to speak properly.

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

Trump's one consistent position is that he will stop at nothing to protect his properties and his profits.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

I didn't come from a rich family. We had no money. And now living in all these lavish houses and property around the world, it's my choice. It's something that I've worked for.

I would want to own property in Bespin.