Quotes About Aspiration

Like every Brazilian child, I always wanted to be a footballer.

I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

We wanted to be footballers, not part of some gang.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I wanted to be a sneaker designer since I was 10; it was my dream to work at Nike and design signature shoes for Michael Jordan and Penny Hardaway. When it was time to select high schools, I wanted to go to one that would help me get a jump-start on my dream.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.

After I saw 'Annie' on Broadway, I came out of the show crying, because I wanted to be on that stage.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.

I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.

There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

I would say I've done everything I wanted to.

I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.