Quotes About Aspiration

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

I did stand-up comedy for a long time in San Francisco, and then I was like, 'You know what? I'm going to move to Los Angeles and try and make it!'

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

I had the great good fortune of working with Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen, and Arthur Hill early in my career, and it set a standard for the kind of work I want to do.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

When I was in the eighth standard, I would dance to 'Suraj hua madham.' I have to achieve many things before I become even the 'S' of SRK.

As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me, we can only look up to that and dream, 'When will that be us someday?' There's so much to learn from him. He is the encyclopedia of acting.

To be able to know kids one day will want to be like me, I hold myself to a super high standard.

It's every songwriter's dream to come up with a standard.

I learnt at the Euros that that is the level I want to be at. That is where I want to be. The standard of the strikers there was top class. That is where I want to be for a long period of my career.

You should shoot for high standards, and believe they're obtainable.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Arsenal's standards are very high so I've always tried to reach that.

I've been inconsistent by my standards, but I always set high goals for myself.