Quotes About Dreams

He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?

You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

May you stay Forever Young

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.