Quotes About Aspiration

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.

I was told I could play at the top long before I realised I could. A few people told me that. I've always had a 'name,' and I don't know how I got it, but I was blessed with people in the right situations saying good things about me.

You dream about winning since a kid and when you get that first win it took some time to realise it. But once I realised it, it was so cool.

I realised at 13 or 14 when I said, OK, I wanted to be professional racing driver, there wasn't anyone to look up to that I could aspire to or get inspiration from. But that didn't stop me.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

I realised that I have the ability to play at the highest level and started to work harder.

I tried to join the RAF cadets at school so I could fly a plane but then I realised you had to do all the other cadet stuff like training before they let you in a plane. Then you're roped in for life.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

I never even knew I would end up becoming an actor. It was coincidental for me. Once I did it, I realised it's what I really want to do.

Through the auditions and the process of 'Sonali Cable,' I realised that I want to be an actor.

I never asked to be compared to Richard Pryor. I just realised he was one of the greatest humorists we'd ever had on earth, I knew I wanted to be like that.

I played in goal for Notts County juniors. I liked that sense that goalkeepers were outsiders, mavericks. But I stopped when I realised I wasn't going to grow any more. I'm 5ft 7ins so I couldn't have been a professional.

I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.

I'm a dreamer and a realist.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.