Quotes About Aspiration

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.

The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.

There was a time when I really wanted to do films, but they didn't come my way. I would come close and the next day suddenly I'd realise that I am not a part of the film anymore. So that's how television happened.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

I will think of doing television only when I'll be looking forward to doing reality shows.

I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.

I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.

I would love to host a television show.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

I used to watch those syndicated, black-and-white Country Music Television shows from the '60s with my dad. And all of those people that played on our television set, they just felt like family to me. And I believed in my heart, as a little kid, that I would be doing that someday and I would know all those people and we would be friends.

I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

I personally feel like if I were to talk to myself when I was a trainee I'd like to tell myself that every minute of me dreaming and enjoying what I do is all investment in what I'm doing for the future.

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Some of my earliest memories, from when I was six or seven, are of going to see Pedro Infante movies and telling my mother, 'When I grow up I want to be like them.'

I was telling people like 'My Dawg' gon' be the song that get me out there. I knew it.

But I was always an actor, and I kept telling myself that there will be a day when I will become a good actor.