Quotes About Ambition

After I got my first job in a restaurant, it just clicked. I was like, this is it, this is what I want to do.

When I came to America I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awesome to get into one movie?' And then I get cast in 'Bridesmaids' as my first job here and it's such a huge movie.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.

I couldn't believe my first job at the BBC was going to be a primetime show. I was baffled at first: 'Are you sure you've got the right Emma?!'

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.

I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

The actor in me can never die. It's my first love and first dream. That's what keep me going.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

You've really got to, first of all, love the game, you got to love the competition, you got to love to compete.

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

Go to work every day, be the first one in and the last one to leave, and you'll know that you've done everything in your power to make your life better.

That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.

Of course, it is difficult to arrive at a big team in the first place, but it is even harder to stay there.

I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.

The only reason I came to L.A. in the first place was to tell stories and make movies. Whatever way you can do that - if you can do that - at whatever level, that's rewarding.

At the end of the season, the important thing is to be in first place. It doesn't matter if you score 15 or 20.

You have to work really hard to be first place in life.