Erica Fernandes Quotes

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

I don't want only a career.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

During the time I was Miss America, I had come to New York City because I had decided I wanted to try to get into television.

I had two things on my bucket list: Be in the NBA, or direct an episode of 'New Girl.'

I wanted to become a teacher, like my mother, or a charity worker. But my mom says that when I was younger, I told her, 'People are going to know me,' so I guess I always had that idea.

Right after college, I was trying to figure out what to do. Teach? Act? Model? Do PR for the deaf community? And now I'm doing all I dreamed of and more.

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

There's a lot to be said for women who want to focus primarily on acting. Other women, on the other hand, aspire to combine their work in acting with other ventures in fashion, business, directing, writing, producing, etc. It's a very personal decision.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

To be in a band with the other founding members that never sleep is inspiring. Questlove put out five books a year and deejays every night and still do the same day job that I do, only with more responsibility. It drives me to find a way to juggle it.

I do not want to be a journeyman.