Quotes About Aspiration

I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

I always wanted to race but I never thought it would be possible. My dad put me in a cadet kart when I was seven years old and I wasn't strong enough to hit the brake pedal.

I've put myself on this pedestal from the start.

It feels great to be on the same pedestal as Madhuri Dixit.

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail, I didn't have any money, and I didn't go to a fancy college. But that's not the type of story I want to tell or feel the need to tell on film.

There's nothing wrong with being respected by your peers. There's nothing wrong with trying to do your best. There's nothing wrong with success. There's not even anything wrong with trying to get a raise. There's nothing wrong with that.

My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.

For me, an aspiration is to be respected by my peers, people in the industry.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I didn't have, like, any way to penetrate organized sports. So I decided at that point that I had to be rich. If I was rich I could just buy a team and run it.

It's a little bit embarrassing to say but... I wanted to be a penguin.

I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

Kangana didn't have a penny when I met her.

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.