Quotes About Aspiration

I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

I bought my first pair of pointy-toed Miu Miu shoes with a kitten heel from Barneys. They were $200, and it was a big deal. I wore them with a pleated black Benetton skirt and a white shirt. I looked like a waitress.

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realise you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.

The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Every morning, when I wake up in camp, I remember what I want. I want to be champion of the world again.

Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Sometimes I wake up, and I'm like, 'Don't dream it. Be it. You're really living the dream. You are everything you've ever desired or set out to be. You're doing it.'

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.

A dream can be what wakes you up in the morning and keeps you going every day, whether things are going great or not. You have that dream; you have that passion inside you that you keep pushing forward.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.