Quotes About Aspiration

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

There's so many people that I feel like as soon as that happens, they can really be and focus on what they want to do.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.