Quotes About Aspiration

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

I don't know why people feel that I am only interested in films, but I very much want to do fiction. My only prerequisite is a good role, something which satisfies the actor in me. If I get a good banner and a good channel, I would definitely do a daily soap.

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

I don't see myself doing daily soaps.

One of my dreams growing up was to be in a soap.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.

I've always wanted to be on a soap opera.

I was 11 and watching soap operas with my mom, and I thought it would be cool to be an actor. I thought soap operas was going to be the dream at the time - it's obviously now not the dream, but I think soap operas are really cool. Maybe I'll go back to that.

Soap operas were my first professional experiences, and I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.

I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

My heroes were always soccer players.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.

I've always wanted to become a professional soccer player.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition.

I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.

I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women's team.

My dream was always to play soccer.

Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women's game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.