Quotes About Aspiration

Because I prayed this word: I want

I could not hope to touch the sky with my two arms

Caught in the gloaming, suspended in the gilded hour, she saw herself in a landscape of years stretching into a horizon she had never dared imagine for herself.

Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

To let go of the self is the highest calling of the self, something that few achieve. And something that every self, whether she knows it or not, aspires

I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up.

Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars.

I hope that one day, my life will be different and richer, too, but from this vantage point, sitting here in this little room, it's so hard to know

Somos lo que pretendemos ser así que debemos tener cuidado con lo que pretendemos ser (Kurt Vonnegut)

Great things were coming, and her life was going to be anything she wanted it to be, because now it was really and truly up to her.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn't sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.

Ambition is your special ware And you have dared to call it passion.

What I want and what is true seldom have anything to do with each other

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.