Quotes About Ambition

I want to be a professional. I want to be like my TV father, Bill Smitrovich. He's an easy, calm actor. I don't want to freak out.

I've had to learn not be freaked out by big roles... and to take it all one step at a time, quite literally.

If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world?

When I see people like Pietersen bat, I wish that I'd freed up a bit as a batsman, but it's very easy to say now.

I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.

When I drop a freestyle, I'm like, 'This freestyle gotta go hard' or when I do something it's, 'How can we top this?'

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn't start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you. And when you're fresh off the boat, and new in Bombay, you want those kind of things! They are magical fables. You want to, somewhere, be a part of it, something people will read about. But reality is different.

When I was younger, trying to make the freshman and JV team, my dream was always to make it to the NBA.

Being an XXL Freshman means that I actually grinded a lot to get here.

Any kid in my position coming from being an All-American and all that wants to be the guy that makes all the plays coming into their freshman year.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.

When actors are vying for the same kinds of roles, there's bound to be a little rivalry. Deep friendships cannot be forged when you are competing with each other.

I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me.

If you get asked to play a part that makes you feel frightened, then you have to do it. 'Medea' is the opportunity of a lifetime.

When I left home at 17, I became successful astronomically fast. But I think my parents were so frightened of me failing that they focused on that more than my success.

Being a fringe player is not the role I want.

I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist; I knew that early. When they started talking about dissecting frogs, I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.