Quotes About Aspiration

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

You have to stay open, and things may come at different times, but I have to dream big, and that's what I'm going to be doing.

Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.

One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

Every actor wants to direct.

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

I'd love to direct more.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.