Quotes About Aspiration

I thought I would be an extra one time in a movie. And I would have been happy with that.

At one time I was one of those guys looking at the guys on the top saying 'I want to be like that.'

At one time I wanted to be a comedian.

I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.

One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.

I've always wanted a family since I was a little girl - a big family. I'm an only child, so I wanted, like, 10 kids... for sure.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

If you were 12, and Beyonce was up onstage saying to you, 'You get to do exactly whatever you want to do,' that would be awesome. I wish she said it to me when I was 12.

We wanted to be successful, we wanted to shoot a video. We just wrote a song and we were like, 'OK, let's go onstage! Let's shoot a video for it!' That was always our dream... We just wanted to have fans and a crowd who would listen.

I saw a concert with Nena singing '99 Red Balloons' on TV and I said, 'I will also go onstage and sing.'

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.

What works for me in 'Indiana Jones' is the fact that I can project myself onto the character. Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does. But I can't do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.

Ever up and onward.

I hoped 'Starlet' would finally open doors for me and lead to a much bigger budgeted movie, but that didn't happen.

I am on 'Bigg Boss' only because it can open doors to the Hindi film industry for me.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

I was the first in my family to go to college, and so, growing up, I thought that dressing well opened doors.

'Dragons' Den' and 'The Apprentice' have opened people's eyes to what they can do.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.