Quotes About Dreams

When I got 'Stargate: Atlantis,' I said, 'Man, I'd love to be on HBO.'

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.

I am not starry. I am your everyday girl, with not so everyday aspirations in life.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

Reach for the stars.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

Everyone is entitled to reach for the stars.

I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

Reach for the stars not drugs.

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that's what I did.

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.