Quotes About Aspiration

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

I never imagined being on television.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.

It's a weird place to be in because my dreams in life have surpassed what I could have ever imagined. I just hope I can continue to write stand-up, but I would say my big dream is to build an amazing family. It's so boring and cheesy, but that's my focus.

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

As a kid, I imagined being an artist.

Have you imagined me acting in a TV drama? I have, when I was young.

I'm a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China... it's so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.

I never even imagined having my own shoe.

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

I've tired of looking into the future, imagining all the things I want to have.

I've been imagining spikes in my head since I was 13 years old.

I started acting imagining how happy I would be if I could be on screen one day. I think I act because I love doing it.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

Becoming Miss America was one of those things. It immediately changed what I thought I was going to do with the rest of my life.

You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

It's every immigrant child's dream to tell your parents they don't have to work anymore.

My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.

I loved to sing and dance and play-act, and I always believed that my dream to become an actor would come true because my immigrant parents had taught me to believe in the American dream.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.