Quotes About Ambition

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Every single insane psychotic thing that I've ever believed that seems unfeasible to other people, I've made it happen.

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.

I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

I have no desire to run for public office.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

I'm very goal-oriented. I do see myself doing something in public service.

I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

The industry is a difficult place to be in. It is not at all rosy. There are judgements being made. I don't like bad publicity, but that is part and parcel of it. However, I am grateful for whatever I have got from the industry.

I started doing American films and TV before Priyanka, but of course I do small roles in big films, and I don't have the publicity machine working around me.

If I were to publicly give away my secrets, I'd be dumb. I am an intelligent woman who is focused on the prize.

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.