Quotes About Dreams

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I want to set up a music school for the needy who cannot afford musical education so that they can realize their dreams.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

I was crying because I was making my Broadway debut and there's nothing like that. It's the absolute mountaintop for a nerd like me that's loved it forever.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

I love to help with dreams and I love what I do on 'X Factor' as far as the mentoring and helping someone get over nervousness or reach their potential.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.

If you can imagine you have thought about something your whole life, and you have invested everything you have got into achieving that moment, and then the ball hits the back of the net for England and you are wearing the number nine shirt.

We never expect to go to No 1 - though of course we always hope to.

I can never forget Sridevi's determination to make it big in Bollywood.

I'm trying to help inspire kids to achieve their dreams and never give up.

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

I'd love to get involved in X Factor,' maybe - never say never.

It's almost a blessing for a new generation to say somebody like myself went to their school. It helps kids dream, and now they're getting into acting, football, whatever.

If we really want to be the Live Free or Die State, we must ensure that New Hampshire is a place where every person, regardless of their background, has an equal and full opportunity to pursue their dreams and to make a better life for themselves and their families.

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?