Quotes About Aspiring

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

I was in and about the Northern Ireland team, I was a young boy, an up and coming star in the team!

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

They cry, "But I WANT to be a writer!" And my head hangs. You are asking to be shot square in the head. You know not what you seek. You ask for bleeding brains and carnage that stains your pillowcase. You ask for jelly in the place of the cartilage in your spine. You ask for kindness that is never returned. You wish to burn alive in the flame of a love unrequited. It's simple. Write.

A freelance gangster and thief" (as Herbert Asbury describes him in his classic work The Gangs of New York), Hicks embarked on his criminal career at the age

People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.

The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn't really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that's putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.

If you're an up-and-coming star, and you want to do well, then a show like 'The X Factor' is really important.

We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

The first time I met Harlan Ellison, we were both unpublished young punks in Cleveland, Ohio.

He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road;

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

To those who have substituted authoritarian science for authoritarian religion, individual thought is worthless unless it is the symbol for a reality which can be seen, tasted, felt, or thought about by everyone else. Such men adhere to a dogma as rigidly as men of fanatical religiosity. They reject the world of the personal, the happy world of open, playful, or aspiring thought.

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.