Quotes About Aspiration

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

I would have been a fine orthodontist.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

My director Shakun Batra, I believe, is one of the finest in the industry and he has been the dream director I've always wanted to work with.

When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

I would want like, model-slash-actress-slash-designer-slash-mother-slash... cook! I just like having my finger in loads of pies all the time.

I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.

Fingers crossed, you'll hear a lot more of me.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for good roles to come my way.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

Eventually, I want to finish my degree.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.

I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.

I can imagine finishing my career at Chelsea.

I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

When I came to America I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awesome to get into one movie?' And then I get cast in 'Bridesmaids' as my first job here and it's such a huge movie.

My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things.

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

Acting was my first love before music.