Quotes About Dreams

I've always dreamt of being on a Stanley Cup-winning team. That always stayed with me.

It's in my dreams, being champion and staying champion and being one of the major champions in the sport.

When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being No. 1 in the world. That dream stays the same as long as you're doing the career that you're on. I think it would be silly for that to change.

A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

I had a rock and roll band as a kid. What I wanted to be in was a country band, but in Sandy Hook, Ky., you're hard-pressed to find a steel guitar player or a drummer.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

My stepmother wanted to be an actress.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

I've literally had dreams of that moment since I was a kid, no joke, about stepping in for my first at-bat.

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition...

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband's power in Brno, had idly—during a party, say; a musical recital at the castle—gazed into the core of the diamond that had come to her from Oskar Schindler, she would have seen reflected there the worst incubus from her own dreams and her Führer's. An armed Marxist Jew.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times I had the feeling there was someone else in my bedroom who was talking to me, but of course I could not deal with this perception in any realistic way, since I was half-asleep and half-awake, and thus, for all practical purposes, I was out of my mind.