Quotes About Aspiration

Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.

I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.

It's no secret that the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is a huge dream of mine. There's been so many guys I looked up to - Pegasus Kid, Owen Hart, Liger, Prince Devitt, Kota Ibushi... the best of the best have held that belt.

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

You dream about being in the shotgun and letting your receivers go to work, and making plays with no time left. That's definitely been a dream of mine my whole life.

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was necessary for, that no-one else could write.

You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn't matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it.

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.

No matter what the general public says. When it's something you want, you have to block out that noise and negativity and just go for it.

As a kid, I dreamed of being nominated for a Grammy.

I want to be nominated for Grammys.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

A Ballon d'Or nomination is one of the best things you can achieve as a player but I want to achieve more and more.

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies.

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.