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 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

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Lajos Kossuth