Quotes About Aspiration

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

Kylian keeps learning and going forward, which he does very quickly. It's good that he is ambitious. He is self-confident, it's good. He always wants more.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

I never said I want to be an actor. I just went quietly, quietly, I'm going to do this myself, so I chose the journey in my own way.

I've always aspired to be the quintessential gentleman.

When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.

People easily quit their dream because it's not easy.

For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.

I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard.

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

I didn't have the opportunity to finish college and I was quite sad about that.

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

The announcement that I was going to be an actor was made when was I was 10 years old. And that didn't go down all that well, but I had a lot of years to butter up my parents. My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

Quite frankly, I just want to be playing at the highest level of football. That's the most important thing to me.

For me, like, my goal has never been, quote, unquote, 'mainstream success.' I've just always wanted to work in entertainment.

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'