Ambition quotes

“- Lora Meredith: You're aiming high.
- Steve: Why not? It doesn't cost anymore. Don't you believe in chasing rainbows?”
Lana Turner - Lora Meredith
John Gavin - Steve Archer

“- Lloyd Richards: There comes a time that a piano realizes that it has not written a concerto.
- Margo: And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?”
Hugh Marlowe - Lloyd Richards
Bette Davis - Margo Channing

“I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.”
Bette Davis - Margo Channing

“I didn't study much, but I think I could do great things. However, I'm no good at little things.”
Catherine Deneuve - Tristana

“Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.”
Meagan Good

“- Kinuba: Vector! I should have known!
- Vector: What you should have known, my friend, is that nobody is greater than the game.”
Leonard Wu - Kinuba
Mahershala Ali - Vector

I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way.
Justin Theroux

“I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.”
Harry Anderson

“I'll tell you what I want. Good food. Women. Good cigars. Good beds with fresh sheets. Hot showers in Hilton Hotels. New shoes, poker, blackjack, dancing. Clint Eastwood westerns. That's what I want. And you. I knew from looking at your face.”

Harvey Keitel - Rivas

“Your momma told me ya'll been going through some things. Sometimes people need to step outside of who they are to realize who they could really be.”

Dominic L. Santana - Suge Knight

“- Hammerson: People love guns because America is a land of opportunity, where a poor man can become rich, and a pussy can become a tough guy, if he's got a gun in his hand. Now, I'm hopin' you're not just a pussy with a gun in your hand.
- Mr. Hertz: Oh no, sir. No, no, I am not. I'm a tough guy with a pussy in my hand.”
Stephen McHattie - Hammerson
Paul Giamatti - Hertz

“- Neo: What does he want?
- The Oracle: What do all men with power want? More power.”

Keanu Reeves - Neo
Gloria Foster - The Oracle

“- Walt Disney: You look at me and you see some kind of Hollywood King Midas. You think I've built and empire and I want your Mary Poppins as just another brick in my kingdom.
- P.L. Travers: And don't you?
- Walt Disney: Now, if that's all it was, would I have suckered up to a stubborn, cranky dame like you for twenty years? No, I'd have saved...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Philip Kimberley: I was going to get a Cabinet post. I might even be Prime Minister by now.
- Boris Medvachian: If you should go back to England now, you'll not get five years in the House of Commons, you'll get probably thirty years in Brixton jail.”
Sir Michael Caine - Philip Kimberley
Morteza Kazerouni - Boris Medvachian

“One of the things that makes me happy in life is knowing I don't envy anyone. I don't want to be anyone else or do anything that I want to do... which of course right now is nothing now that I'm unemployed, but I have good projects for the future.”
Chris Eigeman - Des

“- Sho'nuff: I've been waiting a long time for this, Leroy. I am sick of hearing these bullshit Superman stories about the legendary Bruce Leroy catching bullets with his teeth. Catches bullets with his teeth? Nigga please.
- Leroy Green: The secret awaits eyes unclouded by ambition.”
Julius Carry - Sho'nuff
Taimak - Leroy Green

“You are the incarnation of your family's ambition. I am the incarnation of your family's fear.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams

“- Scarlett Overkill: Work for me, and all this will be yours: respect, power...
- The Minions: Banana!
- Scarlett Overkill: ...Banana!”
Sandra Bullock - Scarlet Overkill
Pierre Coffin - The Minions

“When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.”
Steve Martin - C. D. Bales

“Dear Diary, I try to get what I want, whenever it's possible. I have always found that socially unacceptable people make the best lovers because they are more sensitive. I can be happy and fuffilled. I will never doubt it. I can not afford to. Each thought, each movement turned into a great moving force. Love Candy.”
Stephen Dorff - Candy Darling

“There's no such thing as too far. You push everything as far as you can. You push and you push and you push until it starts pushing back. And then you push some goddamn more.”

Al Pacino - Walter

“My mother always wanted to be a witch. But she didn't have the gift. It's not that I want to be the best. I'm just so tired of being the worst.”
Fairuza Balk - Mildred Hubble

“I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do every day. I'd rather die, if I don't get it.”
Mark Wahlberg - Jim Bennett

“I always thought I had to be rich to own the stars.”
Robin Wright - Moll Flanders

“In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.”
Dennis Dugan