Ambitious Quote by Anna Quindlen

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making…

— Ann Brashares

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

— Juliette Lewis

I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except…

— David Bowie

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I…

— Marianne Williamson

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second…

— Marsha Mason

My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.

— Minnie Driver

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

— Sheila Hancock

Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described…

— Doris Lessing

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back…

— Sheryl Lee

Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously…

— Cheryl Strayed

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to…

— Lissie