Personal Ambitions Quotes

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

I don't want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I'm still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

'E.T.' and 'Star Wars' were cult movies then and opened up a brand new world of adventure and mystery. But as much as I would have loved to be friends with E.T., I realized that following in the footsteps of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan was more realistic.

I see my goals as personal and I always have. That's just been how I've worked.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Human history is full of predators known as conquerors, who carried out murder, persecution and abduction of women to satisfy their lust for power, plunder and prestige. They knew that their misdeeds were sheer acts of barbarity dictated by personal ambitions but Jehad, the behest of Allah to destroy non-Muslims, not only sanctified these atrocities, but also raised them to the apex of piety, purity and probity.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

I don't have ambitions to be a movie star or multi-millionaire.

Besides acting, I have tons of plans but there is time for it.

I am a completely different player to Ballack and Schweinsteiger. I admire the careers they have had - I hope mine will be like theirs - but I am not the same.

In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.

Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

I wanted to be a lot of things. There were a million things I wanted to do. I still do. Acting is one of the good ways of doing it you know, because you can be all those things.

In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

When I was really young, I wanted to be a fishmonger's wife.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

As for my personal ambitions, I always loved playing for England and always felt I did well.

I never wanted to be an engineer.