Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I was never ambitious. I was never ambitious at school.

I've never been ambitious.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

I'm not ambitious.

I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

I have never been terribly ambitious.

I don't want to be New Vocalist of the Year; that's not a goal of mine. If those things come along, that would be awesome, but that's not something I strive for.

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

I'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

Maybe someday, if I work hard enough, entertainment will be a career for me, but right now making videos and uploading them to the Internet is just a hobby.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

I don't even think in terms of ambition.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

I'm not really very ambitious.