Quotes About Aspiration

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

I really love Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Edward Norton. I also like Ryan Gosling and Rick Bentley. And of the girls I like Naomi Watts and Juliette Binoche, and I would like to work with...

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.