Quotes About Aspiration

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

If I could play any character from the book though it'd be Church. Who wouldn't want to be a cat?!

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.