Quotes About Aspiration

As a kid, I was always pretending to score the goal in the FA Cup final, and I managed to live my dream.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

Pretty much my dreams came true when I did a duet with Lea Michele.

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

'Five Easy Pieces' got to me pretty good. I remember seeing it and thinking, 'That is so cool. I would love to be able to do that.'

I always wanted to be an actress. I think that is something that I could be pretty good at.

When I was younger, I always knew I was a pretty good player, but it was impossible to foresee how far I'd go. I had a left foot and vision like no one else, but I wasn't the quickest and my right foot wasn't so great, so there were things I needed to work on.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.

If you had told me when I was a kid that I'd have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it'd probably put a pretty good smile on my face.

I have always been inspired by Hrithik, and he's the very reason I got into the entertainment industry. I am an avid dancer, and Hrithik is a demigod when it comes to dance.

I'm not a professional dancer.

I've got a three-year-old daughter. To picture her being a dancer, I'd absolutely love that. I'm in absolute awe of what they do. Just seeing them work, they're incredible.

Maybe in another life I would have liked to have been a dancer. But I was a cheeky chappy who wanted to be an actor.