Quotes About Dreams

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I never wanted to be a director.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

I think, in Australia, it's kind of a crazy thing to say, 'I want to be an actor.' People look at you weirdly. And when I said I was moving to L.A., I remember people saying, 'No, you shouldn't. You'll just come back disappointed.'

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.

I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never got films to the dining table and never discussed films.

I left Brazil at 17 years old in order to give my family a better life, but when I returned home two years later, I was completely disillusioned with football.

I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

I love Disney movies.

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.