Quotes About Dreams

If you work hard, the things to which you aspire can happen.

I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.

I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer. So I never thought it would happen for me.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to me that's a self-elimination.

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. With me, it stuck more than most kids. Ever since I was little, I wanted to do it.

In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut.

Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go to one Games but four.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

When I was 10 I started playing for Atletico Mineiro and that was the start of my professional career.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

Age isn't an attraction. Imagination is.

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

That's where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it's the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

Sometimes with auditions and going up for a role, you don't want to admit to yourself that it's everything you've ever wanted.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.