Quotes About Aspiration

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.

I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

I would have loved to study medicine, but I was lucky to have come into the profession that I loved. I may not have been very good at it, but I loved it.

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't necessarily know if I wanted to do it for a profession. I wanted to do it to express myself.

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

Ever since I had decided to study at the National School of Drama, New Delhi, I had wanted to take up acting as my profession.

If I wasn't a footballer, I definitely would have been a chauffer because that is my father's profession and he's a person I aspire to and admire. I wanted to follow in his footsteps as a man.

I didn't dream about becoming a professional: I dreamed about becoming the best in the world.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

The U.K. and the U.S. are in different places. Don't get me wrong - I am there for the U.K. industry, and I am always searching for more roles to play there, but it's sparse.

There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.

There are a million different things that I want to do.