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

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

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.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

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.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

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

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.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

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

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

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 was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

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

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

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.

This was life in the ’30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

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

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.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

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’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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.

I grew up in a funny way.

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.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I always wanted a family.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

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

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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