Quotes About Dreams

The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

I love the beauty and fast pace of Hollywood.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

A lot of people who want to be serious artists probably don't want to go for a talent show, but it is a great launching pad.

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I wanted to be a painter.

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.