Quotes About Dreams

I loved to sing my whole life, but it was never really - I don't even know how to say it. It was never presented to me as an actual career option.

I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very scary.

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.

My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in my own room. I was also obsessed with Elvis as a kid.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.

I'm not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

Pretty much my dreams came true when I did a duet with Lea Michele.

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.