Ambition quotes

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
Michael Stuhlbarg - Mr. Perlman

“All young actors dream of success, but it's a bitter kind of thing for man, you lose the most valuable thing in the world, privacy.”
Yul Brynner

“- Freddie Mercury: Let's go and punch a hole in the roof of Wembley Stadium.
- Brian May: Actually, Wembley Stadium doesn't have a roof.
- Freddie Mercury: Then we'll punch a hole in the sky.”
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury
Gwilym Lee - Brian May

“- Vortigern: You and I have a lot more in common than you think. It's not just the same blood we share, but also the same interests. We both developed a palate for power.
- Arthur: I've never had any power, or any desire to achieve it. Sire, I could simply drift away never to be seen again.
- Vortigern: As much as I would like to believe you,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jude Law - Vortigern
Charlie Hunnam - Arthur

“- Ordell Robbie: You know you smoke too much of that shit, that shit gonna rob you of your own ambition.
- Melanie Ralston: Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV...”
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
Bridget Fonda - Melanie Ralston

While you two boys were content to sit back and become a couple of also-rans... I wanna take the future. I wanna win. And you don't get there by being some "aw shucks" guy sap. There's no place in business for people like that. Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and put a hose right in... (continue)(continue reading)

Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing. ”
Wes Bentley

“All my life I always wanted to fly. I always wanted to live like a hawk. I know you're not supposed to be jealous of anything, but... to take flight, to soar above everything and everyone, now that's living. But a hawk is no good around normal birds. It can't fit in. Even though all the other birds probably wanna be hawks; they hate him for what...” (continue)(continue reading)
Josh Hartnett - Hugo Goulding

“- Evil: When I have the map, I will be free, and the world will be different, because I have understanding.
- Robert: Uh, understanding of what, Master?
- Evil: Digital watches. And soon I shall have understanding of video cassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Warner - Evil
Derek Deadman - Robert

“- Harold M. Abrahams: If I can't win, I won't run!
- Sybil Gordon: If you don't run, you can't win.”
Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams
Alice Krige - Sybil Gordon

“So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.”
Elijah Wood

“You think that the only way to lead a meaningful life, is for everyone to remember you. For everyone to love you! Guess what, Gus - this is your life! This is all you get! You get me, and you get your family and you get this world, and that's it! And if that's not enough for you, then I'm sorry, but it's not nothing.”
Shailene Woodley - Hazel

“Everybody who’s anybody wants to be somebody!”
Keegan-Michael Key - Honest John

“Don’t you dare settle for fine. ”
Brett Goldstein - Roy Kent

“It only takes ten seconds to crush a man’s ambitions.”
Kevin Spacey - Francis Underwood

“When you get sad, you run straight ahead and you keep running forward, no matter what. There are people in your life who are gonna try to hold you back, slow you down, but you don’t let them. Don’t you stop running and don’t you ever look behind you. There’s nothing for you behind you. All that exists is what’s ahead.”
John Krasinski - Secretariat

“Oh, you think that I didn't have ambition? I was a good actor. But I was never going to be a great actor. It was very very hard to admit that to myself. But once I had, I felt free from the tyranny of ambition. I started to live.”
Hugh Grant - St Clair Bayfield

“Molly Bloom-You know how many girls at the Olympics have demanding fathers?
Charlie Jaffey-All of them?
Molly Bloom-Exactly.”
Jessica Chastain - Molly Bloom
Idris Elba - Charlie Jaffey

“Mickey Deans-You have to have ambitions, right?
Judy Garland-Well, I used to have them. I found they gave me the most terrible headache.”
Renee Zellweger - Judy Garland
Finn Wittrock - Mickey Deans

“He said that his dream was that my dreams came true.”
Ross Lynch - Harvey Kinkle

“If you desire the sun and the moon, all you have to do is go out and shoot at the sky.”
Claudia Jessie - Eloise Bridgerton

“The power to fly, that’s what you dream of.”
Anna Maiche - Cassie Shore

“Well, anything is possible if you really want it.”
Josh Lucas - Bray

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Jo March

“I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!”
Lana Turner - Lora Meredith