Quotes About Ambition

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

In a way, I felt like I arrived before I was making money at it, because I'd established that I just wanted to act.

I had a dream to become Glen Hoddle but never a female equivalent.

You really have to have a voice, especially as a female. You've got to be strong-minded and really focus on what your goal is - you can't be all over the place.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

I would love to drive a MotoGP but I'm not sure Ferrari agrees.

It was always my dream to drive for Ferrari.

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

We already knew that Glastonbury is one of the largest music festivals. We always wanted to perform here, and it's like a dream. It's really amazing.

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

Very few people I know deserve to live out their dreams more than Daniel Bryan.

If you decide to move to L.A. like, 'I'm just gonna see if it works, and if nothing works I'm gonna go back in a year, two years' - very, very few people with that attitude are successful. You need to make a commitment to this and say, 'This is who I am, and this is what I do.'

Most people I know that are successful have a few things in common that are undeniable: driving ambition, and they have applied that to something they're good at, that they love doing... and they are fun to be around, especially when they're talking about their passion.

There are few things that define us as a country more distinctly than the idea of the American Dream. The idea that anyone can make it here through hard work and dedication. And that dream rests on giving people here a fair shot.

I decided I really wanted to go into something athletic. But I was 23, starting later in life, so wrestling was one of the few things available.

This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.