The Best Rory Gilmore quotes

I’m a pessimist by nature. I don’t think things are ever going to work out, I’m not particularly ambitious. — Diablo Cody

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough. — Ron Conway

I’m a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am. — Jessica Clark

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself. — Rachel Whiteread

More than anything, I just think about what roles I take on and make sure that it’s really something that I feel passionate about if I’m going to leave home and go work. — Alexis Bledel

I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it’s a more comfortable place for me to be, really. — Alexis Bledel

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn’t want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up. — Billie Piper

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.–Ban Ki — Moon

I’m the kind of person who, if I like one song, will listen to all of the band’s work before moving on to another group. — Alexis Bledel

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven’t been producing my own work or anything like that, so I’ve taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way. — Alexis Bledel

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs. — Louis Kronenberger

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes. — Anna Quindlen

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive. — Scott Belsky

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20–book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with. — Jim Butcher

I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me. — Shonlock

I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine. — Jule Styne

I don’t know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. — Ned Vizzini

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it’s not realistic. It’s also not realistic, if you’re going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving. — Mitchell Hurwitz

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm. — Fernando J. Corbato

Be more ambitious. Don’t bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time — David Ogilvy

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I’m kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap… I was just in the right place at the right time. — Alexis Bledel

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. — William Shakespeare

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit. — Alexis Bledel

I’m ambitious and I’m determined and I know where I’m going to be. It’s not where I want to be, but where I’m going to be. — Ricky Whittle

I’m still a shy person. I’ve learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It’s part of my job. — Alexis Bledel

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don’t get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious. — Elizabeth Debicki

This is very ambitious, but I don’t care. I’m just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her. — Kristen Schaal

I think it’s better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! — Francis Ford Coppola

In my life, I don’t need to have my face plastered everywhere. It’s not really something I want. — Alexis Bledel

I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I’ve had those my entire life. It’s something that was just instilled in me by my parents. — Mindy Kaling

I’d love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me. — Bat For Lashes

I think that’s what makes life interesting–the evolution of getting older, and it’s kinda fascinating to me, the whole process. — Alexis Bledel