Quotes About Aspiration

To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise.

England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Obviously I've grown up around YouTubers, people getting millions of hits, but I was never anywhere near that.

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

It would be neat to sing with Roger Miller.

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

Big girls need big diamonds.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

I'm a great believer in needing things that give us some hope.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.

I think this is the story of this country, that you get to come here and build a better future for yourself and for your neighbours than you could have anywhere else in the world.

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

TV made me a star, but I wanted to be a movie star. So I started auditioning for films and during the initial days, I did face nepotism. But isn't it everywhere?