Quotes About Aspiration

I love the beauty and fast pace of Hollywood.

I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

When I was younger I would play in front of crowds as small as 500 in the second division in Belgium, so I know what that's like. It might be easier in terms of pressure, but believe me, I would always prefer to be at a packed Anfield playing against Manchester United. That's why you want to become a footballer.

I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.

One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really surprised that I wanted to take part!

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day - or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn't a very difficult decision.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.

If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

I think of me being a painter eventually.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.