Unconventional Ambitions Quotes

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !

I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.

Most entertainers start at a young age saying, 'I don't want to be normal. I don't want a regular job.'... I think that's something that's innate.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

As long as I get to do the kind of work I want to do, I am okay with being a Z-lister.

I'm very creative - making music, making puppets, that's my thing - but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not really for me.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so people understand that we want to be all kinds of things then. It's not a big deal.

I never set out to build some behemoth comedy career. My taste in movies is far more eclectic than that so my aspirations as a filmmaker are far more eclectic than that.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

My entire life, I just wanted a pony, and I couldn't care less about a pair of shoes.