Quotes About Dreams

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

I love New York. You want to find out if you're any good? Try New York. Who sang that? Frank Sinatra? If you make it here, you can make it anywhere.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

I love to sing and never thought I'd be able to do it, and it happened for me.

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.

I'm a little kid from Azusa - for people to even know my name in Singapore, that is huge for me. That's what I've always dreamed of.

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

When I was a child, the idea of coming to Mumbai and becoming a singer was a far-fetched one.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.