“I'm not a failure. I'm a success. You see, ambition is all right if it works.”

Harry Hayden - Mr. Waterbury

“If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition.”

William Demarest - Skeeters - The Politician

“A happy and efficient ship - a very happy and a very efficient ship. Some of you might think I'm being a bit ambitious wanting both but in my experience you can't have one without the other.”
Noel Pierce Coward - Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. (Captain "D")

“- Bill Williamson: Clem never told me you could sing like that, Selina.
- Selina Rogers: I couldn't when Clem went away... but I practiced, and I studied. I've always been ambitious.”
Bill Robinson - Bill Williamson
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne - Selina Rogers

“I'm not interested in you, or your novel, or any other pathetic ambition you have to change your miserable, mundane existence.”

Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville