Quotes About Dreams

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Ever since 'The Goldbergs' began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to 'Highlander.'

I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.

I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.

I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

My main goal is to help out kids in my hometown and realize their dream in weightlifting.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

From the time I was 2, I told my mom I was going to be a singer. And she'd say, 'Sure, honey, and tomorrow you'll want to be a dancer.'

You never get the role you have worked so hard for, but the dream role, the one who gives you joy, money and maybe even honor, that one just falls into your lap.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing 'The Bill,' I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as 'Training Day' or 'Boyz n the Hood.' So to have worked with some of the greats I've admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me.

America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future would lie with writing.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.

My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing for Cambridge.

There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much more difficult to be hopeful and to dream extravagantly.

When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.