I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

I love the fast lane.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

If a man is truly in love the most beautiful woman in the world couldnt take him away. Maybe for a few days but not forever.

My co workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

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.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

My one ambition is to play a hero.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.