Quotes About Aspiration

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."

I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an actor all the time. In that, all mediums become important in their own ways.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.

It's time to fly.Care to join me?