Quotes About Aspiration

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.

I studied in New York. I fell in love with an Australian-born, half-Filipina girl. So we moved to Australia when she went to her university and I moved with her. We moved to Montreal because she was going to take her year abroad, and I wanted to see if I could keep on writing there. It's really hard to make it as a writer in the Philippines.

I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.

I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.