Quotes About Aspiration

When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.

I'd love to sing with so many people, but my biggest dream would be to sing on a record with The National.

I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour and celebrity of acting, and a lot of actors start acting when they are 9 or 10 years old - so young. I started when I was about 24.

I can't complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn't complain because there's so many people who would kill to get to this point.

It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

So many people don't realise you need to be on a certain level of Maslow's hierarchy to have a dream: you have to have food and be safe from danger, all these things my parents didn't have at the get go, so I, from the very beginning, believe I have been living for multiple generations, for my parents and grandparents.

It boils down to this: do they have the ability? If they want to be a singer and have a good voice, then yes. I would support them in it 100 per cent. But I see so many people who are delusional, and I would tell my kids if it wasn't a realistic goal.

The story of 'Rudy' has almost transcended me. I'm the representation, but there are so many people out there that identify with it.

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

I want to act. That'd be so much fun.

That's what has been so much fun about the whole creative process. You can make your characters have adventures that you haven't had and might wish to have.

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.