Modest Ambitions Quotes

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.

I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it's unusual to have success and want to stay small.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Fortunately, the films I do not require too much of glamour. Those are the kinds of roles I'm looking for.

I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

I made Fast Car just in my spare time with no real hopes for it at all.