Creative Ambitions Quotes

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

I want to go deep into fashion; I want to go maybe into acting. There's a lot of stuff I would like to go into.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

You already past 21 and you still talking about "I'ma be a rapper." You ain't did one show, niggas ain't seen you on TV. So Kendrick kind of went through the same thing I went through. He just had his mom's house to go to.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

I don't love big films for the sake of big films. It's not been a career drive to get to that point.

I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that my dream job was 'romance novelist.'

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.