Quotes About Dreams

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.

I loved music and felt I had enough talent to become a concert pianist, but I was foolish enough to let myself be laughed out ot the idea.

My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

I wanted to be the Number 1 overall pick.

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.

As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was focused on scoring high marks so that I could do an MBA in marketing.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.