I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Some day I shall be President.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

I always entertain great hopes.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.