There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

“I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions.”

“As far back as I can remember, I've had only one real ambition: to be an actress.”

“We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.”

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

“The Czech people have the highest ambitions and we are aware of this. It would be nice to appear in the final game.”

“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”

“After we beat him, he'll have plenty of time to pursue his presidential ambitions.”

“Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.”

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”