Quotes About Aspiration

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

I would love Jimmy Stewart to play my life story.

I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

I've watched the Masters on TV since I was young, I remember watching Jimmy White and a few others, so I can't wait to play there myself.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

To be playing Joan Crawford is as good as it gets.

I love Mel Gibson... I'd like to ask him for a job.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

I think I'm trying to - I'm trying to make a career, rather than just doing jobs for the sake of doing jobs.

I had wanted to be a dentist, but ended up being a chef. I think I've always had a fascination for jobs that have white jackets.

I've done jobs where I thought, 'I don't want to be that kind of actor; I don't want to work on something with people who don't have the same kind of goal as I do.'

I wanted to be a jockey.

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

A theatre tour as me, Joe Lycett, with support acts. That would be the dream.

My cousin Joe was just the coolest kid and I wanted to be like him. He had girls, could do whatever he wanted and he was a bricklayer, so I decided to do that.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

John Belushi made me want to be an actor.