Ironic Ambition-seeker Gifts

"You think I can be an assistant manager?"

"This could be the year someone actually goes up there."

What else is there to wish for?

The Salesman

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

"How can you have a meteoric rise to the top in a one-story building?"

'It could have been worse...she might have chosen banking.'

"My daughter tells me you want to become a doctor."

'What can you wish for?!... Oh, I don't know... Infinite wealth, beautiful women throwing themselves at your feet, fame and admiration, perhaps?... But, don't let me influence you.'

"You used to be that ambitious."

"Where am I going to college? I thought this was college."

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

'I've changed my mind...I want to grow up to be a politician.'

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

"It's more relevant than some of the other theme parks we've been to."

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

London merchant telling a young employee that if he does not change his behaviour his career will go badly and he may end up becoming mayor

"Why be a princess...when I can be a queen?"

"When I grow up I'm going to be a ghost writer."

In 1682 in a remote cave in the Ural Mountains, Heinrick Glaston discovers irony.

"If we had invented the phone and computer, we would be at the top of the food chain. What a blown opportunity."

'It saves me the trouble of constantly asking myself 'What's my motivation?''

Vampire shaving cut dilemma.

"It's lonely at the top...But it beats being depressed at the bottom."

"Maybe I can be a campaign worker."

"...and would you like to enroll her in pre-pre-pre-med or pre-pre-law?"

"Don't get your hopes up, Filby."

"Stop chasing my tail? I'd be lost if I had no goal in life."

'When I grow up, I want to destroy Tokyo!'

"If you work hard enough, and find the right reality show, you can grow up to be anything you want."

"You'll find it's lonely at the top."

"By the time I climbed up to this job, I was too tired to do it."

Man with a Plan

"You'll never know if you can fly until you leap into the unknown."

"My parents are nice, school's going well, and I'm basically a good kid. Unfortunately, there's no money or fame in being normal."