Quotes About Aspiration

There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That's the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn't really mourn for that - it's too disturbing, seems like a mistake.

I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.

I have mouths to feed and I want big fights!

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.

Most young people want to get out of the environment they grow up in, move on, and do something. The big question for everyone is what they want to do and how. It's something that most young people feel.

Can you give someone a bad name for wanting to be ambitious? For wanting to move onto bigger things? That person is ambitious, that person wants to do stuff, that person wants to move on with his life.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. When I moved to L.A., that was my dream, because I never really grew up watching comedies, although of course I loved 'Dumb & Dumber.'

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

There is a scene in the movie with DJ Cutkiller, one of the biggest European DJs from France, and he was scratching like crazy. When I saw that, I was 14, and I was like, 'Yo that's what I want to do. That's crazy.'

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I had no delusions about myself. I couldn't act - I had never acted. So how could I be a movie star?

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

I always wanted to be in show business or whatever you want to call this crazy world, to be an actor or a movie star or whatever.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.