Quotes About Dreams

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are just involved in the Hollywood and movie scenes, that's far beyond anything I ever thought would happen in my life.

The Champions League was something very distant for us. I grew up in a very small town with 50,000 inhabitants, and it was a way of being able to watch my idols or people I admired play football on television.

I could relate to a band from a small town, talking about wanting to get out.

When I was smaller, I always looked up to Zidane, Messi, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

I planned for my first film 'Crook' - that it would be a smash hit and I would be an overnight sensation. You know how newcomers are, they live in this whole fairytale, like, 'Oh my God, everything's going to be so good and perfect.'

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

Would I rather be on 'Saturday Night Live' or Snapchat? I'd rather be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.

With 'SNL,' it's such an iconic institution. Throughout my 20s or maybe even in middle school or high school, it never felt like a real thing. It felt so distant, and I never imagined I could do that.

As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.

To be able to say, 'I'm going to be Snow White' - it's crazy. It's an honor.

I've always thought of the United States as a place where so much was possible and so many opportunities were out there.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed?

I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'

There are so many people that want to tell stories. I think that the issue is how hard it is to get your foot in the door to tell your stories.

Hollywood does seem like the holy grail. Not to diminish anything from other countries, but it's the most mainstream and hardest to be a part of because there are so many people in it.

It's really the city of Detroit that I owe the thanks to and all the people along the way, so many people that played a role in my success in giving me the dreams and aspirations to go to college and do the things that I did.

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.