The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

- Andy Taylor

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

- Candace Bushnell

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

- Christopher Walken

No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.

- Burt Shavitz

The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.

- Bat for Lashes

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

- Brandon Flowers

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

- Baruch Spinoza

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

- Barbra Streisand

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

- Barbra Streisand

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

- Augustus Hare

I'm not very ambitious at all.

- Amy Winehouse

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

- Amanda Eliasch

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

- Anna Julia Cooper

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

- Arthur Keith

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

- Alexei Sayle

Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

- Aidan Gillen

I suppose that I am ambitious.

- Antonio Banderas

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.

- Anna Kendrick

I'm not ambitious.

- Amy Sedaris

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

- Annie Dillard