Quotes About Aspiration

I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'.

I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff.

It takes a while to get a show on, and I've a number that have not yet been produced. I want to see all of them produced spectacularly before I pack it in.

I never doubted that if I applied myself and tried to learn that I would good at it. I've had a lot of lucky turns, no doubt. But it's actually been a fairly direct line from control-freak, cartoon-obsessed kindergartner to control-freak, cartoon-obsessed executive producer.

I want to be an executive producer.

When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

It was a dream come true, as in my first film, I have Rajkumar Hirani as the producer and Madhavan as my co-star. Who can get a better role than this?

I think my brother always wanted to be a film producer.

Now that I have better producer chops, a country album is something I want to do one day. I don't know who's going to put it out. But when I do, I don't think people will call it 'country music.' They'll probably call it 'neo-soul.'

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

You know what, I didn't see myself being an executive producer.

When I was very young, around 11 or 12, when I started actually meeting people, trying to get work, I had to meet producers, directors but I didn't have the platform.

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.