Quotes About Aspiration

I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're doing it.

On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

This entire journey from 'Balika' to 'Jhalak' to 'Humpty' has been a dream.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

Who wouldn't want to be an 'American Idol' judge? It's an awesome, awesome show.

There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.

I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun.

I never wanted to be a Judy Garland.

I did a lot of engineering things, like taking apart my brother's model car when I was 10. I also played the piano for about 10 years. I auditioned for Juilliard but didn't get in.

Julia Roberts was the first big Hollywood celebrity to make me feel like I could be her friend and aspire to be like her.

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.