Quotes About Dreams

Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.

I began my journey as a 16-year-old boy at the Arsenal's academy, trying to one day become a first team player, going out for evening runs in East Barnet with Jack Wilshere.

It has been magical. I can't think of a better word to describe my journey than magical.

I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's been just the most amazing time of my life. I'd love more of it.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It's my favorite place. It's my heart; it's my soul.

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

I think all major league players dream of being named MVP.

I want to write for big names like Whitney Houston and The Backstreet Boys.

When you see your father playing in the first division, and you see players like Ronaldo with the crowd singing their names, you want that.

I wanted to be up there with all those names like Max Steiner.

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's not something that just happens - one in a million shot - all those things that just make you feel like it'll never happen.

I got a hold of NASA, four times, I said, 'I want to become an astronaut.' But nobody would take me. I didn't think that I would ever get to go up.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.