Quotes About Aspiration

If need be, I'll collect stray balls during the training sessions, just to get a chance to play with the likes of Luka Modric and Niko Kranjcar.

Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.

My bigger game plan was always to be the top artist in the heart of people and that probably made me artist of the year on multiple music streaming platforms.

In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.

Acting was something I always really wanted to do and, when I left school and was old enough to get an agent, 'Coronation Street' was, like, the thing to get into.

I want to have a street named 'Swae Lee.' It doesn't need to be a busy street.

I have been saying to my agent and my wife for many, many months that I am going to be James Bond one day. I hope I'm not too 'street' for it.

'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

I've been able to reach from the streets to the suites.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

'Back 2 Da Basics' was my way of saying I'm done and out of the streets and I'm going to get a record deal and be a rapper for real.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

Hosting 'SNL' was something I'd always wanted to do. The show allowed me to play to my strengths - mixing music with comedy seemed like a way into that world.

If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch.

I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.

I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.

Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.

I was probably around 14 or 15 when I became really conscious of those girls who were going on to the Royal Ballet school, and that I was not Royal Ballet school material, not by a long stretch.