Quotes About Aspiration

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Diejenigen, die es "nie zu etwas brachten" (...), hätten es auch überall sonst nie zu etwas gebracht. Es wäre einfach nur lustvoller, es in Paris nie zu etwas zu bringen.

The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead.

Anyone can promise the stars. Only you can reach them.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.

Fate granted some people their wildest, greatest wishes while leaving the simplest pleas of others unanswered.

Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be.

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. ? Don DeLillo, Americana (ACTES SUD; 0 edition, August 10, 1993)

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.

Il talento non esiste, capitano. Esistono soltanto l'ispirazione e l'ambizione.

The guys of Savino's generation liked what they saw in the movies and wanted to be that. So Lou ain't trying to be Lefty Ruggiero, he's trying to be Al Pacino being Lefty Ruggiero. He ain't trying to be Tommy DeSimone, he's going for Joe Pesci being Tommy DeSimone, not being Jake Amari but James Gandolfini.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Sure, sure," said Bugs Meany, pushing his way to the front. "I'll be so rich my little sister will have to quit piano lessons and take up playing the cash register!

I'm going, to make money out of the stars.

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.