Ambition quotes

“Big bait catches big rat!”
Henry Brandon - Barnaby

“There's no future for people like you and me, Nick. The places we come from - plant towns, mill towns, small lives! No future, just more of the same! You want a future you got to stand up and steal it.”
Charlize Theron - Ashley

“- Harold Leacher: Quid pro quo Mr Colt.
- Jack Colt: What does that mean?
- Harold Leacher: It means I'm pretentious.”
F. Murray Abraham - Harold Leacher
Emilio Estevez - Jack Colt

“You can have anything in this world, if you want it badly enough, and you're willing to pay the price.”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay

“- Uther: The sword. You promised me the sword.
- Merlin: And you shall have it; but to heal, not to hack. Tomorrow, a truce; we meet at the river.
- Uther: Talk. Talk is for lovers, Merlin. I need the sword to be king.”
Gabriel Byrne - Uther Pendragon
Nicol Williamson - Merlin

“I don't want to do good things, I want to do great things.”

Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor

“I'm not ambitious, not an artist, not a poet, not a revolutionary.”
Theresa Russell - Milena Flaherty

“If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition.”

William Demarest - Skeeters - The Politician

“This was supposed to be the fight that Muhammad Ali was ended. Supposed the myth that Muhammad was gonna fall! Supposed to be my destruction! Well, they miscalculated, they misjudged, they got it wrong!”
Will Smith - Muhammad Ali

“You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine.”
Gerard Butler - Dracula

“- Amazing Grace: Takes a stiff rod to catch the big fish.
- Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey: Oh, I know.”
James Garner - Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey

“- Nefretiri: Are you afraid of Moses?
- Rameses: Yes, because now he holds Ethiopia in his left hand, Goshen in right, and you, my Pharaoh, are in-between them.
- Sethi: Do you imply that he would raise the slaves against me? I've been his father.
- Jannes: Ambition knows no father.”
Anne Baxter - Nefretiri
Yul Brynner - Rameses
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Sethi
Douglass Dumbrille - Jannes

“- Edmund Walker: He didn't have the goods, this guy. He was like a lot of guys you run into - they want to get rich, they want to do it quick, they want to be there with one score. But they're not willing to do what's necessary. Do you know what I mean?
- Ned: I'm not sure. You mean, lay the groundwork? Earn it?
- Edmund Walker: No. I mean do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Crenna - Edmund Walker
William Hurt - Ned Racine

“Anywhere you go, desire is desire. The sun cannot bleach it, nor the tide wash it away.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Richard

“I'm not a crook, I'm ambitious. There's a difference.”
Jack Nicholson - Art Land

“I am an actress! Not a circus performer! I am going to New York City. Next time you see me I am going to be a big star! And you will still be shoveling manure!”
Kathleen York - Marie

I had the fire in the belly just like you and the odd thing is I still have it. Never left me! I had the dream... and I had the weight. Like one of those guys before me said "If a sparrow falls in Central Park, I feel responsible".

Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“- Vladimir: We have found the heir to the Russian throne. And you...
- Dimitri: Will walk out of her life forever.
- Vladimir: But...
- Dimitri: Princesses don't marry kitchen boys.”
Kelsey Grammer - Vladimir
John Cusack - Dimitri

“- Roy Dillon: Do I get any say in this?
- Myra Langtry: No! Because...
- Roy Dillon: That's what I say. What I say is no. We don't do partners.
- Myra Langtry: What is it? What's goin' on? Why don't you wanna team up?
- Roy Dillon: The best reason I can think of is that you scare the hell out of me. I have seen women like you before, baby....” (continue)(continue reading)

John Cusack - Roy Dillon
Annette Bening - Myra Langtry

“I pray you understand why I pushed you so hard! It was only to get you to that next level.”

Denzel Washington - Jake Shuttlesworth

- Dirk Pitt: I knew a girl once.
- Dr. Gene Seagram: I'll bet you did.
- Dirk Pitt: Years later I ran into her again, she says "What happened to you? I thought you were going to change the world".
- Dr. Gene Seagram: What'd you say?
- Dirk Pitt: I said they had me outnumbered.
Richard Jordan - Dirk Pitt
David Selby - Dr. Gene Seagram

“- Sanchez: You are too ambitious.
- Columbus: And were you never ambitious? Or is ambition only a virtue among nobles and a fault for the rest of us?”
Armand Assante - Sanchez
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“- Lindy Krane: I wanna be a lawyer, just like mommy.
- Dr. David Krane: I thought you wanted to be a doctor, like me.
- Lindy Krane: No, lawyers make more money...”
Colleen Rennison - Lindy Krane
Ray Liotta - David Krane

“- The CEO: Kanemitsu-San, I... I realize that it looks bad but, I mean, maybe our plans were overambitious. Let's start a skoshy bit smaller. Let's gentrify this neighborhood, build strip malls, fast food chains, lots of popular entertainment. Whadda you think? [to his aide] What'd he say?
- Kanemitsu's Aide: He said you're fired.”

Rip Torn - The CEO
Doug Yasuda - Kanemitsu's Aide

“I've stood on the shoulders of life and I've never gotten down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own. I've flown too high on borrowed wings. Everything came too easy.”
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren