Quotes About Aspiration

I wanted to be amongst the greats. I wanted to be a Simone Biles, a Michael Phelps, an Ashton Eaton. I wanted to be those guys.

I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.

I have a greed to work with good directors.

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

I am a greedy actor, and I want the best roles to come my way.

As an actor, I am greedy.

I am a person who is greedy to do better in life, to do more in life.

I can't think of anybody among the greats who isn't constantly looking at themselves and feeling dissatisfied. You're greedy in this business: always wanting to prove you can do more. I don't ever remember a time when I've said, My God, I've cracked it - this is lovely.

Greedy actors should never be satisfied.

I've always been greedy. I think every actor is greedy for good parts and stories, and it should be that way.

I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.

I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.

Disney has made $2 billion on 'Grey's Anatomy.' I don't have $2 billion.

I would love to appear in 'Scandal,' something like that, or 'Grey's Anatomy' because I think they're incredible.

It is important for me to believe in a team that has ambition. I want to go up and work towards something. I don't want to work in the grey areas and say it is nice to end up 10th or 11th and keep on doing that every year.

I don't really feel like I done made it all the way. I feel like, 'OK, we did this. Then we grinded enough to get to this point. Now we gotta grind enough to get bigger and bigger,' you know?

I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Dreams grow if you grow.