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.

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.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

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

Joining McLaren didn’t add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

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

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

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.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.

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.

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

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

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.

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.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

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 knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

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.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

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 always entertain great hopes.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

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.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for 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.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

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.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

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

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

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.