73 Movie Quotes about Ambition (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Apr 14, 2026

Memorable quotes about ambition, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 Ma, someday I'm going to go to the moon. -I'm afraid you're too late, Son. NASA isn't sending the monkeys anymore.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

42 Don't you kid yourself about that. There will always be guys trying to get up there quick, and I'm one of them.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

43 And I realized something today. It's not just about me and my dream of doing nothing. It's about all of us together.

Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons in Office Space

44 I'd like to be an explorer, like the great Magellan. -Oh. You're too late. There's really nothing left to explore.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

45 He was on to something big, something so big that it was gonna make the nuclear reactor look like a triple-A battery.

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in Iron Man 2

46 I'm not a crook. I'm ambitious. There's a difference.

Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks! (1996)

47 As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

James Mason as Brutus in Julius Caesar (1953)

48 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)

49 Was this ambition?

Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)

50 Well, we'd better be ready for them. Because they gotta die or win.

Yul Brynner as Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven (1960)