I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Ella Maillart

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
Emanuel Celler

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.
Brendan Gleeson

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
Claire Bloom

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Joseph Conrad

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Anthony Trollope

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
Ally Sheedy

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
John Hurt

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.
Dino De Laurentiis

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
Eva Gabor

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
Jeanette Winterson

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
Alan Hansen

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
Imran Khan

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
Meg Tilly