I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

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.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

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.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

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

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

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

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

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 think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

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.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

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

I always entertain great hopes.

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.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

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.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‚Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.‘

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

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

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

America is another name for opportunity.

I always wanted a family.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.