Quotes About Aspiration

I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.

Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I'd like to achieve those and look back without regret.

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

I cannot take away the fact I am a small-town boy from India, from a lower-middle class family, and was actually standing in front of De Niro - not on an equal level, but as an actor, on the same pedestal.

Coming from a large immigrant family, my parents didn't encourage a lot of 'play' when I was growing up. It was hard to get my Dad to even sit down to watch television with us (he'd watch it standing up, always ready to go do something more productive). Downtime was discouraged, as was any college degree that wasn't law, medicine or business.

When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time - I feel like that's when I 'Americaned.'

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

A man can't just sit around.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Desire is the essence of a man.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.