“Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working with great actors and great directors - who wouldnt want to be a part of that? But its not going to break my heart if it doesnt happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.” IfsWantWellsHeartSaidStillsHappensLyingActorsBreakMy HeartDirectorsAmbitionHollywoodPaidGood WorkDoing GoodGreat ActorsBreaking My Heart Author:Max Beesley
“Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.” PeopleTwoAmbitionHollywoodSpeciesRewardsLustCraveAlliancesAbidingLove And FriendshipEndangered Species Author:Lynda Obst
“It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.” StarsAmbitionHollywoodDancerMovie StarHousewifeGood MarriageHollywood Movies Author:Doris Day
“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.” FirstsMeanMadeStoriesHandsUsedStrongBoysPlansColorAmbitionPagesHollywoodPaidPressesGuitarWinterSavedInventionLocalsAgentsFarmsCashWornUnclesCattleUntruePrairieHaySearsStacking Author:Gene Autry
“When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.” PeopleWorldFirstsFilmYoungSituationAmbitionJokesHollywoodDialogueGet AwayAdsSoleGags Author:Anita Loos
“The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.” FunnyFilmStarsAmbitionMarriedHollywoodAverageCuteMovieItalianEnglishmenBoyfriendFilm StarsHollywood FilmsHollywood Stars Author:Katharine Hepburn
“I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'” KnowsWantWellsSucceedAmbitionOkayHollywoodInternationalActressesAccentsMy Ambition Author:Eva Green
“Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'” IfsGivingShouldSaidStillsWould BeAnswersInspiringTalentGiving UpAmbitionPercentHundredHollywoodExpertsFifty Author:Marilyn Monroe
“My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.” PayAmbitionHollywood Author:Adrian Grenier