Quotes About Dreams

I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

I never wanted to give in to my condition. My life changed a lot but I didn't want it to change my dreams or goals.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.

I thought that I wanted to be a cheerleader because I was one in middle school.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

From 15 or 16, I always wanted to be an Olympic champion, but I don't think you ever believe it until it actually happens.

You have to know your identity. It's the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

I grew up loving artists like the Spice Girls and Britney Spears - artists who seemed to live this fantasy lifestyle, and I remember always wanting to join these fantasy people in that world.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.