Quotes About Dreams

I love fairy tales.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.

I was supposed to have a talk show on MTV.

I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

I never dreamt of the Olympics growing up. It's not something that I watched on TV; it's not something my parents ever talked about.

My dad really wanted to be in the Hall Of Fame, and it was something we talked about a lot.

It was like I have always had big dreams for my drag aspirations, and I talked myself into doing 'Drag Race.' I'm like, take a chance.

I always say that, I never talked about the NBA, I never talked about anything because I was just playing basketball for fun. I didn't think about being a professional and I didn't even know you could be signed.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies.

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

I always wanted to be a character when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters, and I wasn't tall enough for others.

If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.

My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and I loved playing soccer. But my dad didn't want me playing soccer. He would joke, 'C'mon, man, you're too tall!' Then he promised me, 'If you start playing basketball, I'm going to give you my jersey.'

I grew up going to Dodger Stadium and I would look out there on the field with my dad and say, 'Man, those guys are superstars.' And they were. But they almost had this extraterrestrial feel to them, like it wasn't achievable. It wasn't a tangible goal because I didn't know anything about the players.

Cyclops, that's like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me.

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

I thought, then, that I could see your own soul in the constant waves tearing unconcerned at the impenetrable dunes. I wanted, then, to believe the moon is a flower, fragrant, its stem tossed across the water. It was then that I entered some other world, the way your life wakes suddenly in the middle of the night to find your own worn-out dreams lying in sheets around you...