Quotes About Aspiration

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.'

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

I said before, I want to be a starter, I want to be an all-star - not a borderline all-star.

I obviously want to be a starter.

I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.

Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.

My dream is eventually becoming the greatest talent to come out of the United States and New York, being a starter, and playing for my country.

Obviously I want to be a starter and to win things with Real Madrid.

I want to be a starter in this league.

I don't want to be a backup. I want to be a starter.

My personal expectations are to be a starter, and I'm going to fight to earn that position.

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.

I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'