Overambition Quotes

I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse.

If you're not a makeup artist, and you just try to go for the big looks, it just gets the best of you.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

Every time the mainstream media talk about progressive rock, they wheel out a clip of Rick Wakeman in a cape. For me, it's one of the most ambitious forms of music. The problem is that when it doesn't work, you end up with Emerson, Lake and Palmer doing symphonies with 60-piece orchestras and revolving pianos, which I think is ridiculous as well.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

Failure was built into it by an extraordinary of exaggerated expectations.

Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

I think trying to be flashy and doing things that are out of your realm of comfort is the problem with the Divas.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

When I served as Prime Minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once and ended my administration in failure.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.