Quotes About Aspiration

Most of my friends are assistant directors.

I used to think I wanted to be a PE teacher and I worked as a school teaching assistant for a year, but it wasn't for me.

I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to me that's a self-elimination.

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. With me, it stuck more than most kids. Ever since I was little, I wanted to do it.

In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

There are so many kids in Africa who adore these athletes in the NBA and see themselves in them, even though we're so far removed.

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

CNN was just a glimmer in my eye when I was growing up in Atlanta.

I really liked the atmosphere at Wembley, and I would like to box there, too.

I just say I'd like to be an attacking midfielder.

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.

I wanted to be an attorney all the way up until I was 17.

I have always wanted to run for Attorney General, and I always wanted to have a baby, but I did not think I would be doing them at the same time.

You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.