Quotes About Aspiration

I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.

Healthy competition is good to boost ourselves and helps you to take the flight forward.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

Obviously, Thierry Henry is someone I have looked up to ever since I started playing football.

I wish Kylian to have the same career as Thierry Henry.

Thierry Henry is Thierry Henry. I still have everything to prove. By continuing to work, I will try to reach his level, but I am still very far off.

'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.

When we were kids, we couldn't even afford to watch Thierry Henry on Match of the Day.

I wanted to be Samson or Hercules from the age of six.

I'm here to be the greatest.

It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.

I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to - to just play a woman who falls in love, or works as a clerk, or whatever - and then, if you want to, to have that luxury to bring in the cultural heritage.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

My one ambition is to play a hero.

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thing is, I'm happy that I'm able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.