Ambition quotes

“If you're the kind of man that can't support a woman's ambition, then I don't think there's any reason to continue this date.”

Molly Shannon - Tracy

“We all need inspiration, to do amazing things. To fly higher than we ever dreamed of, to discover we have wings.”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay

“- Mike Markkula: Steve Wozniak's employee number one, you're number two.
- Steve Jobs: Wait a minute. I'm employee number one. Woz?
- Steve Wozniak: Doesn't matter to me.
- Steve Jobs: I'm employee number one around here.
- Mike Markkula: I'm not saying anything. I wasn't implying anything.
- Steve Jobs: All right, then I'll be zero. Woz, you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeffrey Nordling - Mike Markkula
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs
Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak

“Always a best man, never a man.”
Ryan Reynolds - Mike Hanson

“I've always wanted power. Now I have an unlimited supply.”
Julian McMahon - Victor Von Doom

“- Richard Rich Sr.: Mount Richmore? I did say that we needed a family portrait, Regina. But this?
- Regina Rich: Well, it was Rafaelle's idea. She's the artist. I didn't want to stifle her creativity.
- Richard Rich Sr.: Oh, honey. You know I'm all for the arts. But don't you think it's a tad pretentious to have our faces 100 feet high?”
Edward Herrmann - Richard Rich
Christine Ebersole - Regina Rich

“- Nancy Jason: David, you've gotta get out of this business. You have a wife and a daughter who love you. I love you. What more do you want?
- David Jason: I want my cake and eat it too. I want my cake and eat it too.”
Yvette Heyden - Nancy
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason

“No man only needs a little salary.”
Charles Durning - Charley

“The gym was packed to the rafters. A wild crowd hungry to see what was in us. I already knew what was in us. Ambition, pride, dissatisfaction at a life turned just the wrong way.”
Josh Hartnett - Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert

“- Don: Things are not always what they seem to be.
- Bob: I know that, Don.
- Don: Because there are people on this street - they want this, they want that. Do anything to get it. You don't have friends this life.”
Dennis Franz - Don
Sean Nelson - Bob

“If you wake up in the morning and you can’t think of anything but singing first, then you’re supposed to be a singer girl.”
Whoopi Goldberg - Sister Mary Clarence

“Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“I am about to revolutionize the scaring industry, and when I do, even the great James P. Sullivan will be working of me. First I need to know where the kid is, and you're gonna tell me.”

Steve Buscemi - Randall

“Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer.”
Rosemary Harris - May Parker

“It's a trip, you know? When you're a kid, you… you see the life you want, and it never crosses your mind that it's not gonna turn out that way.”
Sanaa Lathan - Monica Wright

“All I've ever cared about was video games and they made me a millionaire. So maybe I don't know what the Civil War was, or who invented the helicopter even though I own one, but I did beat 'The Legend of Zelda' before I could walk. I'm thinking about getting metal legs. It's a risky operation, but it'll be worth it.”
Joel David Moore - J.P.

“- Cop: You think someday you're gonna organize the cops?
- Jimmy Hoffa: Hey, that's easy. Someday I'm gonna organize the crooks.”
Nicholas Giordano - Cop
Jack Nicholson - James R. Hoffa

- Colonel Race: What are you thinking?
- Hercule Poirot: I was thinking of Molière: "La grande ambition des femmes est d'inspirer l'amour".
- Colonel Race: I wish you'd speak some known language...
- Hercule Poirot: "The great ambition of women is to inspire love".
David Niven - Colonel Race
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot

“Ambition is... the ice on the lake of emotion.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams

“Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.”
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“- Doctor Waldman: Herr Frankenstein is greatly changed.
- Victor Moritz: You mean changed as a result of his work?
- Doctor Waldman: Yes, his work, his insane ambition to create life.”
Edward Van Sloan - Doctor Waldman
John Boles - Victor Moritz

“Heavy hangs the head, that last night wore the crown.”
Polly Bergen - Mrs. Vernon-Williams

“Everyone and his brother is on the payroll. So, you - buy a mayor, chief of police, generals, presidents. One day you wake up and you own the whole god damn country. Then you take what you want. Banks. Government Casino. Airline concession. Why? Simple. It's easier for the politicians to take silver, than lead.”
Robert Davi - Franz Sanchez

“There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.”
Gina Gershon - Cristal Connors