Quotes About Dreams

When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

I had always wanted to compose music for movies, but had never been given the opportunity.

I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

I want to star in an action-comedy, like 'The Rock' or 'Con Air.' Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist.

I don't like something so fantasy-filled that I couldn't imagine it ever happening. I like things that could come true. That's how I conduct the show.

When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.

I always knew I wanted to be an actress, but I did not confide in my parents.

For those who aspire to become K-pop artists, I'd like to say 'Have confidence and love yourself.'

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn't have access to a satellite for TV.

Love and the imagination are connected.

I have aspirations to conquer the world. Let's see what happens.

I wanted to conquer Hollywood. But I took one shot and that's it for me.

I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

When I came to L.A., I absolutely fell in love with the energy of the place. It's such a creative hub, so as a storyteller, there's nothing better than when you're surrounded by people who think like you and have the same goals as you.

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.

I went to an arts high school and was surrounded by drama students who dreamed of working in the industry. I almost feel a sense of guilt, because I didn't go to acting school.

For myself, I never thought that I'd ever be able to even buy a house. Sometimes when you don't have it, and you're not surrounded my entrepreneurs, you don't think about it.

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.