Carrie Brownstein Quotes

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

Lucas is living the life that I wanted, but I want to be clear, I don't feel there's been any pressure for him to live it.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.

I got to a stage in my mid-20s where I was focusing on 'what's next, what's next,' and sometimes you don't enjoy what you should.

Part of the reason that I wanted to become a footballer was to help my family and friends financially so that was one of the thoughts that kept me going.

That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.'

There are a lot of things that people love, they just can't do for a living.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

This has been a dream for me.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

First you have to have a dream.