Quotes About Aspiration

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

I've found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

When I was very little, I insisted on getting my own pair of heels. And no, the screaming and tears didn't help me get them until I was much older!

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.

I want to keep grabbing, keep reaching, keep crawling, keep grinding and excelling until I can go no higher.

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.

It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual.

I just wanted to be an actor. I was hoping for opportunities to unveil, and I wanted to make the most of whatever came my way.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

I have an impact and people look up to me now. It's more than the money.

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

I really believe that I'm gonna blow up. It's how I feel.

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

For me, my aim is to just be as good as possible. If people do look up to me, I have to set the best example I can.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.