Quotes About Ambition

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

I think I went more toward writing because that's my talent. I don't think I was a great performer... And I like being behind the scenes a little bit.

I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

When I was growing up in the Isle of Man with ambitions of being a performer, I really wanted to go to see a Broadway show.

I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.

I don't want to be just a performer.

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.

I always wanted to be a performer.

My parents were dead set against my becoming a professional performer before I finished college. They felt the most important thing a girl can have in any career is education.

I believe if you are a good performer, then nothing can stop you.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.

I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

Performing has always been instinctive to me. I remember people saying, 'he doesn't know if he's a chef or an entertainer.' But what's wrong with being both? It's like saying you can't run the 100 and the 200 metres.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.