Quotes About Aspiration

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema.

Fitness is something that you can aspire for in terms of levels of achievements.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

In terms of films, I don't like to show pain. I'd like to show hope.

In terms of work, I would like to work on a biopic and some people that I have met have mentioned that my life, in some way, is similar to Mumtazji. She was also a dancer and then became an actress so in that way, I relate with her. So I think if I get the chance, I would like to work in a biopic on Mumtaz.

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

If I feel the role is not going to demand anything out of me, I don't do it. Either it has to be a terrific role, or the director has to be someone I am dying to work with. Or the costar has to be someone I really look up to.

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of Stalin on the mantelpiece. The kids of that generation were terrified of being below par, class-wise.

I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.