Quotes About Aspiration

As a young footballer I used to look up to a number of stars for inspiration and I understand what Bhaichung must have done for all young Indians aspiring to be footballer.

According to me, Indian players have a lot of will-power and this ability to learn will definitely put them on the right track. One day the Indians will jump to the European levels and to the levels that count.

For many Indians, their future as global players is linked to the American dream.

I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.

I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film - that we're all doing this person's reel.

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Since I was 20, I wanted to make a short film and send it to international short film festivals. It never happened. I became too big a star to indulge in those things.

I didn't plan on going to college, at least not a full-time schedule. I still have that plan. I may take some individual classes at some point as an indulgence.

'Baahubali' has brought so much name and fame to our industry. And if given a chance to work with Rajamouli, who would say no? I hope to work with him. You never know, maybe my 151st or 152nd film.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.

I thought I was passionate about my work. Then I saw Shah Rukh bhai and Bachchan saab at work. Their spirit was so infectious. I felt I had so far been just fooling around.

My desire for fame is infinite.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.

When you're young you're influenced by the best teams. So a lot of my favourite cricketers were Australian.