Ambition Quotes

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I'm going to be a star, you know why? Because I have nothing left to lose.

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

I used to walk down the street like I was a super star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ... that of being truly esteemed of my fellow‑men.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.