Quotes About Aspiration

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

Personally, I love music, as it's my first love, and if I ever act, it has to be something close to music. That's when I will feel great about doing it.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

I don't want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.

You can't be what you can't see. Expose yourself to more role models and diverse experience to broaden your perspectives and ideas.

Some people might hate someone who is successful, but in Peru, they love it! It makes them feel they can be successful, too. That's a good state of mind for a country that wants to come out of poverty.

A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in dark and pessimistic settings.

Getting onto 'Jeopardy!' was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.

I've always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously.

I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun.

I wish I could be Peter Falk.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.

My big ambition was to be Richard Petty.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, 'Khaled, you can't get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.' So I went and bought a Phantom.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.