I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
I feel like I should be an NBA player.
I know that what you have faced. I know that you have faced disappointment and loss in your lives. I have, too. I wanted more than anything to be a concert cellist.
Canada's first female Prime Minister
It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.
A chiropractor wishes he were a doctor, just like those people outside Spago wish they were actors.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.
I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
If I am still fighting at 35 I will be disappointed.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
I don't regret being on television; I just regret the fact that I wanted to be in the movies, and that didn't happen.
When you have a dream in mind and you want it so bad and you fail, it crushes you.
I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
I could never be James Bond.
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
I've always aspired to Cary Grant's level of coolness and failed miserably.
And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn't pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed.
I thought I'd become an actress, but then I realized I eat too much.
By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'
I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.
