Quotes About Dreams

I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like 'Lord of the Rings' until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.

I just loved kicking a ball but I was determined to be a footballer and I wanted a professional contract, I would go to any professional club to get one. From 15, all I wanted was to be a footballer.

One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

I admired actors like Dilip Kumar and Om Puri as a kid and acting was all I ever thought about.

It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be an actor.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

I had wanted to become an actress, but in Cane Fork where I come, from being an actress meant the movies and Kim Novak. So I didn't try.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

I kinda feel like if I can do what I like in New York - and I like New York, I was born in New York, I have a lot more of a connection to New York - the hope is to stay in New York.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

One of my dreams was always to play alongside my father but I never got the chance because we only had one drum kit at home.

So, when I was about eight, I told my mother that I wanted to be a chef - and a police man, too. I didn't totally know that was it at the time, but I was very attracted to it from the beginning. I liked the idea of working with people in a kitchen, of dealing with ingredients, all of it.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.