Quotes About Dreams

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.

It's always been my goal to have backing singers.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

I love singing so much. As a kid, that was what I wanted to do.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I had my mind set on dancing or singing.

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

I am going to be an actress. I am going to meet Quentin Tarantino. He will fall in love with me. We will get married. I will be the lead in every single one of his films. He will be like Uma who?

I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.

My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

I grew up thinking that I could be anything I wanted to be in this world because my mom told me that every single night.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

Every single thing related to Old Trafford is amazing. When I was a little kid, I dreamed of playing in a real field, but I never imagined something as fantastic as this.

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

One of my dreams is to work with Ilaiyaraaja sir and do more with Anirudh and Santhosh Narayanan.

Growing up, everyone dreams of certain things, and they map out a direction that their life would take. Working with A. R. Rahman sir is one of my dreams, if not the biggest dream, realised.

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

As a child, my sister and I had very fruitful imaginations, and I would think that I wanted to be one profession or I'd want to have this experience in life. I realized it's not because I actually wanted to be a Coast Guard helicopter rescue pilot or something like that - I just enjoyed the idea of playing it.