Quotes About Aspiration

At first, like every other actor, I wanted to do characters with deep traits - what we call 'serious characters.'

After making repeated attempts to change my career trajectory and having those efforts turned down, my passion for playing the role of a WWE Superstar went away.

I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

I so desperately wanted to fit in. There was a trajectory, and obviously, our society tells us that you go to high school, you graduate, and then you go to college, and from there, you get an internship, you get a job, and some people study abroad, and there are so many things you see that you desperately want to be a part of.

I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.

Don't set time limits for achieving goals. They should transcend time.

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.

There is so much talent! Now, we may not have at the moment that transcendent next-level 'Stone Cold' or The Rock, but I assure you, they're there.

I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'

All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I would trade places with Michael Bay when he was directing 'Transformers' because I'd get to meet Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, and also see what it's like to direct a huge action movie. That'd be awesome.

'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

Eventually, I would love to hold the RAW title at some point before I retire or make that transition.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

I want to get my MBA. I want to create my own business. When I'm finished with football, I want a seamless transition to life and work and what I've dreamed about doing all my life.

I enjoy watching the NFL, but you've got to have a real passion to make that transition and have a real crack at it.

When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

The one thing that I always encourage women who want to be WWE Divas to do is have something you are passionate about. For me it was Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts. For some people it's soccer. Whatever it is, it gives you confidence and that will translate.

I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.