Quotes About Aspiration

It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

Since I have spent so much time with film-makers, and I understand the process, I would love to direct a film some day.

I spent two years trying to get into drama school.

I don't want to get confined to only regional cinema as I want to exploit my potential. I want to perform challenging roles in a much more complex sphere like Bollywood.

I was thinking, could I be the sixth Spice Girl?

I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.

That's been my goal since I was a child and saw the Spice Girls on TV: I was like, I want to wear those fancy outfits and sing my heart out on a big stage.

I would have loved to have played Spider-Man.

I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.

I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point.

I'd love to be Spider-Man, but one, it doesn't fit into the 'Glee' schedule.

I wish I was agile like Spider-Man and everything we do that draws on the childhood inspirations and the adulthood inspirations, for that matter. They're definitely the reason how I am, how I am today, because I was a smaller kid who was a nerd.

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really.

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

I think it's the Canadian spirit that encourages people to dream a little bit.

What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.

It is very important to set yourself goals and work on them. It lifts your spirits and helps you focus.