Ambition quotes

“A happy and efficient ship - a very happy and a very efficient ship. Some of you might think I'm being a bit ambitious wanting both but in my experience you can't have one without the other.”
Noel Pierce Coward - Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. (Captain "D")

- Ariane: What can we expect from the "reformed" Frank White?
- Frank White: I'm gonna run for mayor!

Ariane - Ariane
Christopher Walken - Frank White

“- Mark Jennings: Mrs. Douglas, I think I finally know what I want to be when I grow up.
- Mrs. Douglas: Oh? And what's that?
- Mark Jennings: Rich.”
Emilio Estevez - Mark Jennings
Barbara Babcock - Mrs. Douglas

“The slower we move, the faster we die. We are not swans. We're sharks.”

George Clooney - Ryan Bingham

“- Bill Williamson: Clem never told me you could sing like that, Selina.
- Selina Rogers: I couldn't when Clem went away... but I practiced, and I studied. I've always been ambitious.”
Bill Robinson - Bill Williamson
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne - Selina Rogers

“Fun is fun. And done is done. Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.”
Peter LaCroix - Mature Alan

“She never stopped fighting to have things her way.”

Eric Idle - Narrator

“- Governor Ratcliffe: I've never been a popular man.
- Wiggins: I like you.
- Governor Ratcliffe: And don't think I don't know what those back stabbers at court say about me.
- Wiggins: Oh, yes, all that talk about being a pathetic social climber who's failed at everything he's tried.”
David Ogden Stiers - Governor Ratcliffe
David Ogden Stiers - Wiggins

“Ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.”
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“- Frank: This is God. You are disturbing the natural order of things, and will be severely punished for all eternity. God has spoken.
- Sebastian: How many times I have to tell you, Frank? You're not God. I am.”

Joey Slotnick - Frank Chase
Kevin Bacon - Sebastian Caine

“All I know, Eminence, is that you, for your own purposes, have kindled this fire. All this time, all these years, I have wondered at your high pride and your vain glory. I have abhorred your voluptuous life and had no regard at all for your presumptuous power and your tyranny! I also know your malice against my nephew, the Emperor. You hate him...” (continue)(continue reading)

Maria Doyle Kennedy - Queen Katherine

“Harry's dreaming of a forty million dollar production he'll never get off the ground, with a star he'll never sign with or without my help.”
Rene Russo - Karen Flores

“I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar.”
Robert Stephens - Sir Gerald Moore

“One day, I will become the greatest Jedi ever. I will even learn how to stop people from dying.”
Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker

“There's two ways to look at it: Billy wants the models and limousines, while I'm happy with hookers and taxicabs.”
Hugh Dillon - Joe Dick

“I'm not a failure. I'm a success. You see, ambition is all right if it works.”

Harry Hayden - Mr. Waterbury

“- Adam: People who are tragically ambitious and smart go to New York and people who are just tragically smart come here.
- Rebecca: Oh. What about people who are just tragically ambitious?
- Adam: They go to LA.”
Josh Charles - Adam
Penelope Ann Miller - Rebecca

“They say the higher you aim, the farther you fall.”
Byron Lawson - Eddie Kim

“Never mind the young Cordelia, ducky. He wants a light Cordelia!... It's not youth or talent or star quality he's after, ducky, but a moderate eater!”

Tom Courtenay - Norman

“- Queen Isabella I.: I thought he was an idealist.
- Duenna: Idealism and ambition are not incompatible.”

Sigourney Weaver - Queen Isabel of Castille
Isabel Prinz - Duenna

“- Bobby Ciaro: Someday, your gonna be president of the United States.
- Jimmy Hoffa: Fuck that. Someday, I'm gonna be president of the Teamsters.”

Danny DeVito - Bobby Ciaro
Jack Nicholson - James R. Hoffa

“I don't want to have to do this living. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it.”
John Hawkes - Richard Swersey

“Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes and don't share their power with mankind. No, I don't want to be a god. I just want to bring fire to the people. And... I want my cut.”
Kevin Spacey - Lex Luthor

“I thought her a mere social climber, but now I see she's a mountineer.”
Deborah Findlay - Mrs. Sedley

“- Emily Appleton: You're a treasure hunter, aren't you?
- Mitch Wilkinson: I'm just a man, trying to make his mark on history.”
Helen Mirren - Emily Appleton
Ed Harris - Mitch Wilkinson