Quotes About Aspiration

Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I'd eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It's the American Dream inside the American Dream.

I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!

I saw my first UFC fight when I was 15 and figured, 'This is what I want to do when I grow up.'

I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.

I had been offered a six-figure deal to write two cookery books. Six figures, at just 23.

That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

I want to do music, film, acting - all of that kind of stuff.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

Janhvi Kapoor is my biggest competition in this film industry.

Though there is lot of struggle, nothing deterred my ambition to get into the film industry.

All I can say is I want to remain in the film industry.

When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn't the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores.

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

I wish I had gone to a film school.

I went to film school to direct.

Though I was born in a cricketing family and played Under 16 and Under 19 cricket for Delhi, my heart was always in cinema. Even while I was playing cricket, I was day dreaming about how it would be to stand on a film set saying lines.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.