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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved in creating beautiful products and images.

— Maureen Chiquet

I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here.

— Marc Jacobs

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

— Paul Auster

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

— Polly Bergen

My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.

— Brittany Murphy

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

— Julie Delpy

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

— James Weldon Johnson

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

— David Hasselhoff

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.

— Bob Shaw

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.

— Rosecrans Baldwin