Creative aspirations Quotes

I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn't the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores.

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.

You never know how things are going to fit. So, you don't count your eggs until they hatch. You can't pre-project that. I mean, this was literally like a childhood fantasy of mine, to be able to work in action. You know, growing up on Disney films like Pocahontas and wanting to enter into that, or Aladdin and how he's fighting - being your own hero, being your own heroine is like every one's dream.

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.

I always wanted to do some acting, but didn't want to be that guy who says he has to.

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood and there was one season left, and I was thinking, "What's next?" I'm at this age where I'm trying to write my own script, and they sent this over and I decided to put myself on tape.

Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.