Quotes About Dreams

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.

As a little girl, my dollhouse allowed me to imagine a big, perfect, grown-up life in which I'd be effortlessly domestic.

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

When you're super passionate about something, you're more willing to do all of the grunt work. You know, like, I'm so willing to live on a bus for my whole life because that means I get that one moment on stage or that one moment in the studio that totally fills me.

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

There have been many dreams which have been personal guides for me.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.

I wish I was born 20 years earlier so I could have worked with Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and K. Asif.