Quotes About Aspiration

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

I went a long way to play in Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.

I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

I thought I would either be an epidemiologist or a 'Price Is Right' model.

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could be one of the actresses. When I saw 'Pride And Prejudice,' the one with Colin Firth, I just absolutely knew that was what I wanted to do, and for 'Cranford' to be my first job was poetic, really.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn't lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn't really motivated to this.

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I knew I wanted to go to college because nobody in my family had. So I was like, 'I'll go and be a theater major.'

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Big 12 Championship is, to me, it's always your primary goal to start with because it's not easy to do.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so people understand that we want to be all kinds of things then. It's not a big deal.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.